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con⋅sign

  [kuhn-sahyn]
Use consign in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to hand over or deliver formally or officially; commit (often fol. by to).
2. to transfer to another's custody or charge; entrust.
3. to set apart for or devote to (a special purpose or use): to consign two afternoons a week to the club.
4. to banish or set apart in one's mind; relegate: to consign unpleasant thoughts to oblivion.
5. Commerce.
a. to ship, as by common carrier, esp. for sale or custody.
b. to address for such shipment.
6. Obsolete. to confirm or ratify, as with a seal or other token.
–verb (used without object)
7. to agree or assent.
8. Obsolete. to yield or submit.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME; appar. (< MF consigner) < ML consignāre to mark with sign of cross, L: to mark with a seal. See con-, sign

Related forms:
con⋅sign⋅a⋅ble, adjective
con⋅sig⋅na⋅tion  [kon-sig-ney-shuhn] , noun

Synonyms:
1. relegate, assign. 2. confide.
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con·sign   (kən-sīn')   
v.   con·signed, con·sign·ing, con·signs

v.   tr.

  1. To give over to the care of another; entrust.

  2. To turn over permanently to another's charge or to a lasting condition; commit irrevocably: "Their desponding imaginations had already consigned him to a watery grave" (William Hickling Prescott).

  3. To deliver (merchandise, for example) for custody or sale.

  4. To set apart, as for a special use or purpose; assign. See Synonyms at commit.

v.   intr. Obsolete
To submit; consent.

[Middle English consignen, to certify by seal, from Old French consigner, from Latin cōnsignāre : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + signāre, to mark (from signum, mark; see sekw-1 in Indo-European roots).]
con·sign'a·ble adj., con'sig·na'tion (kŏn'sī-nā'shən, -sĭg-) n., con·sig'nor, con·sign'er n.
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Word Origin & History

consign 
c.1430, from M.Fr. consigner, from L. consignare "to seal, register," originally "to mark with a sign," from com- "together" + signare "to sign, mark," from signum "sign." Originally "to ratify by a sign or seal;" commercial sense is from 1653.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: con·sign
Pronunciation: k&n-'sIn
Function: transitive verb
: to entrust (one's goods) to the possession of a dealer to be sold for profit or returned if unsold —compare BAIL, ENTRUST —con·sign·ment noun —con·sign·or /k&n-'sI-n&r, "kän-"sI-'nor/ noun
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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