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Grammar : Verb |
Spell : kuhn-sahyn |
Phonetic Transcription : kənˈsaɪn |
Definition of consign
Origin :- early 15c., "to ratify by a sign or seal," from Middle French consigner (15c.), from Latin consignare "to seal, register," originally "to mark with a sign," from com- "together" (see com-) + signare "to sign, mark," from signum "sign" (see sign (n.)). Commercial sense is from 1650s. Related: Consignee; consignor.
- verb entrust, hand over for care
- Only the Prime Minister himself, personally, can so consign a paper.
- Extract from : « Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 » by Ian Hamilton
- He called upon the owner, and asked him to consign the ship to his house.
- Extract from : « The Land We Live In » by Henry Mann
- Some one at Rieka most unfortunately had forgotten to consign the sugar.
- Extract from : « The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 » by Henry Baerlein
- And to think that you, an Englishman, could consign your fellow-countrymen to such a fate as that!
- Extract from : « The Pirate Slaver » by Harry Collingwood
- Dick has no such power over me as to consign me to misery everlasting.
- Extract from : « Jewel Weed » by Alice Ames Winter
- We cannot consign them to the mercy of these natives—for no mercy will they have.
- Extract from : « Edward Barry » by Louis Becke
- To cast us adrift here in an open boat is to consign us to destruction.
- Extract from : « The Lonely Island » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Religiously, we consign the body to the grave, commit the soul to God.
- Extract from : « English Synonyms and Antonyms » by James Champlin Fernald
- It was the place to which he had meant to consign Hapgood a bit ago.
- Extract from : « Joyce's Investments » by Fannie E. Newberry
- "This man whom we consign to American soil was, like so many of us, born on the other side of the ocean," he said.
- Extract from : « Shaman » by Robert Shea
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