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Assignation n.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. "This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces."

An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. "While nymphs take treats, or assignations give."

A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.

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Etymology of 'Assignation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Assignation" Quotes from Famous Books

... is—in the condemned cell?" Valgrand cocked his hat rakishly on one side. "And I have an assignation at the prison?" ...

— Fantomas • Pierre Souvestre

... bracket upside down, to examine the mark at the bottom. In doing so, a bit of paper fluttered out, and as she picked it up, the words, "West Wood, four o'clock," met her startled gaze. She was convinced that the writing was Harry's, but whom could the assignation be intended for? Soon after Bluebell came into the room as it seemed to her with no very apparent purpose Lady Geraldine, not without design, seated herself at a small writing-table, with her back to the bracket, and almost immediately ...

— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

... "Une femme d'Alencon," and so forth. At other times the reference is somewhat more covert, but hardly to be doubted, as in the remarkable story of a "great Prince" (obviously Francis himself) who used on his journeyings to and from an assignation of a very illegitimate character, to turn into a church and piously pursue his devotions. There are a few curious stories in which amatory matters play only a subordinate part or none at all, though it must be confessed that ...

— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre

... The Assignation Longing Evening (After a Picture) The Pilgrim The Ideals The Youth by the Brook To Emma The Favor of the Moment The Lay of the Mountain The Alpine Hunter Dithyramb The Four Ages of the World The Maiden's ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

... with wonder that she was still in the normal, accepted world, that Evelyn might still be her companion, that Therese still adored her more fervently than any saint in the calendar. Perhaps, if the truth were known, she was more abased in her own eyes by the self-abandonment which had preceded the assignation with Warkworth. She had much intellectual arrogance, and before her acquaintance with Warkworth she had been accustomed to say and to feel that love was but one passion among many, and to despise those who gave it too great a place. And here she had flung ...

— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward

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