ASSIGNATION

assignation

Noun

  1. 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, Memoirs of Fanny Hill.''
  2. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.


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