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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
assign .
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Examples
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There are several Reasons assign'd by Naturalists for the Cause and
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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Though the Reasons for this have not yet been assign'd.
An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744) Corbyn Morris
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_How blest my lot, in these sweet fields assign'd Where Peace and Leisure soothe the tuneful mind.
Trivia Logan Pearsall Smith 1907
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At this Entertainment, of which I was a Spectator, something very particular surpriz'd me: The noble Guests at the Table happening to be more in number than Attendants out of Liveries could be found for, I being well known in the Lord Devonshire's Family, was desired by his Lordship's Maitre d'Hotel to assist at it: The Post assign'd me was to observe what the Lady Churchill might call for.
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A new Patent obtain'd by Sir Richard Steele, and assign'd in Shares to the menaging Actors of Drury-Lane.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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What appear'd to be most reasonably under his Cognizance was the licensing or refusing new Plays, or striking out what might be thought offensive in them: Which Province had been for many Years assign'd to his inferior Officer, the Master of the Revels; yet was not this License irrevocable; for several Plays, though acted by that Permission, had been silenced afterwards.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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During the past winter 1500 of the prisoners, to save their lives, join'd the Confederacy, on condition of being assign'd merely to guard duty, &c.
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During the past winter 1500 of the prisoners, to save their lives, join'd the confederacy, on condition of being assign'd merely to guard duty.
Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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But I must leave these speculations, and come to the theme I have assign'd and limited myself to.
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What the future will decide about Robert Burns and his works -- what place will be assign'd them on that great roster of geniuses and genius which can only be finish'd by the slow but sure balancing of the centuries with their ample average -- I of course cannot tell.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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