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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

... path. I know you will disappear together. In thy ruin, how will the felicity and honor of multitudes be involved! But it must come. This scene shall not be blotted by his presence. No doubt thou wilt shortly see thy detested paramour. This scene will be again polluted by a midnight assignation. Inform him of his dangers; tell him that his crimes are known; let him fly far and instantly from this spot, if he desires to avoid the fate ...

— Stories by Modern American Authors • Julian Hawthorne

... yes: she began the correspondence by making a very curious but very natural assignation. She wants me to meet her in heaven. ...

— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw

... at any rate so far as women were concerned. They ran after him, and one can scarcely blame him if he acquired a derogatory opinion of them. After all, he held them no cheaper than they made themselves in his eyes. That note I looked at which came from his pocket was written by him to make an assignation." ...

— The Hunt Ball Mystery • Magnay, William

... I have known of girls who came to the city to study painting, stenography, bookkeeping and other occupations, and who, while ostensibly pursuing their daily labor, are all of the time going to these houses of assignation whenever there is a dollar to be gained which will place them in a position to dress better or go to some place of amusement which ...

— Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls - War on the White Slave Trade • Various

... thought I should next winter feel cold in the toes of that leg? As is usually observed, that those who lose limbs, are sensible of pains in the extreme parts, even after those limbs are cut off. However, my keeping you then in the story of the battle of the Boyne, prevented an assignation, which would have led you into more ...

— The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 • George A. Aitken

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