Hypertext Webster Gateway: "assigned"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Assign \As*sign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Assigned}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Assigning}.] [OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L.
assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum
mark, sign. See {Sign}.]
1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.

In the order I assign to them. --Loudon.

The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
station than that in which his lot had been
assigned. --Southey.

He assigned to his men their several posts.
--Prescott.

2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out
authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to
assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.

All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --Spenser.

It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
--De Quincey.

3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to
transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called
assignees, for the benefit of creditors.

{To assign dower}, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
share or portion in an estate. --Kent.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

assigned
adj : appointed to a post or duty; "assigned personnel"; "assigned
duties" [ant: {unassigned}]


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