A Topical Dictionary: Search for assignation

Dictionary Results For "assignation" [?]/[OPML]

Ads By Google

Wiktionary Articles [RSS] - [GNU, www.Wiktionary.org]

English

Noun

An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature.
:1749 As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his assignation. — John Cleland, 1''

Usage notes

Modern usage confines the word to mean an agreed-upon place for illicit sex, but earlier usage is broader, and considerably more innocent.

fr:assignation io:assignation it:assignation ru:assignation te:assignation vi:assignation

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Assignation \As`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. assignatio, fr. assignare:
cf. F. assignation.]
1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
[1913 Webster]

This order being taken in the senate, as touching
the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
--Holland.
[1913 Webster]

2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview;
-- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a
bad sense.
[1913 Webster]

While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
--Pope.
[1913 Webster]

3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
[1913 Webster]

House of assignation, a house in which appointments for
sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet assignation
n 1: a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn: tryst]
2: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning;
distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of
seats in the House of Representatives is based on the
relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment,
apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling]

Moby Dictionary
abalienation , accounting for , agreement , alienation , amortization ,
amortizement , answerability , application , appointment , arrangement ,
arrogation , ascription , assemblee , assembly , assignation house ,
assignment , at home , attachment , attribution , ball ,
bargain and sale , barter , bequeathal , blame , brawl , caucus ,
cession , charge , colloquium , commission , committee , conclave ,
concourse , conferment , conferral , congregation , congress ,
connection with , consignation , consignment , conventicle ,
convention , conveyance , conveyancing , convocation , council , credit ,
dance , date , deeding , deliverance , delivery , demise ,
derivation from , diet , disposal , disposition , eisteddfod ,
enfeoffment , etiology , exchange , festivity , fete , forgathering ,
forum , gathering , get-together , giving , honor , housewarming ,
imputation , lease and release , levee , love nest , meet , meeting ,
meeting place , palaetiology , panel , party , place of assignation ,
placement , plenum , prom , quorum , rally , reception , reference to ,
rendezvous , responsibility , saddling , sale , seance , session ,
settlement , settling , shindig , sit-in , sitting , soiree , surrender ,
symposium , synod , trading , transfer , transference , transmission ,
transmittal , tryst , turnout , understanding , vesting

ASSIGNATION, Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which intimation must be made.