Assignation: Definition and part of speech

Assignation

  1. n. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
  2. n. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  3. n. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; — used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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