- (v.i.) To yield consent; to agree; to acquiesce.
- (v.t.) To stamp or impress; to affect.
- (v.t.) To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold or for the use of such correspondent; as, to consign a cargo or a ship; to consign goods.
- (v.t.) To assign; to devote; to set apart.
- (v.i.) To submit; to surrender or yield one's self.
- (v.t.) To give in charge; to commit; to intrust.
- (v.t.) To give, transfer or deliver, in a formal manner, as if by signing over into the possession of another or into a different state, with the sense of fixedness in that state or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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