consign

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to give over to another for care or safekeeping

   consign your baggage

2. 2
   verb

   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.

3. 3
   verb

   To send to a final destination.

   to consign the body to the grave

4. 4
   verb

   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[…]

5. 5
   verb

   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[…]

6. 6
   verb

   to commit forever

7. 7
   verb

   to send to an address

8. 8
   verb

   To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).