consigns
consigns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of consign.
Meaning of consign
Verb
consign (third-person singular simple present consigns, present participle consigning, simple past and past participle consigned)
- To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
- To entrust to the care of another.
- For virtue’s image yet poſſeſt her mind, / Taught by a maſter of the tuneful kind : / Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Conſign’d the youthful conſort to his care.1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, William Broome, and Elijah Fenton, Odyssey, new edition, volume I, London: T. Longman et al., translation of original in Ancient Greek, published 1796, book...
- To send to a final destination.
- to consign the body to the grave
- To assign; to devote; to set apart.
- The French commander, charmed with the greatneſs of your ſoul, accordingly conſign’d it [a donation] to the uſe for which it was intended by the donor[…]a. 1700, John Dryden, “Dedication”, in The British Poets, volume XI, Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and W. Creech, and J. Balfour, published 1773, page 13
- To stamp or impress; to affect.
- Ennoble my ſoul with great degrees of love to thee, and conſign my ſpirit with great fear, religion and veneration of thy holy name and laws[…]1650, Jeremy Taylor, “Devotions for ordinary days”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 19th edition, London: J. Hepinstall, published 1703, page 44
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