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Assign   /əsˈaɪn/   Listen
Assign

verb
(past & past part. assigned; pres. part. assigning)
1.
Give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person).  Synonyms: delegate, depute, designate.
2.
Give out.  Synonyms: allot, portion.
3.
Attribute or credit to.  Synonyms: ascribe, attribute, impute.  "People impute great cleverness to cats"
4.
Select something or someone for a specific purpose.  Synonyms: set apart, specify.
5.
Attribute or give.  Synonym: put.  "He put all his efforts into this job" , "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story"
6.
Make undue claims to having.  Synonym: arrogate.
7.
Transfer one's right to.
8.
Decide as to where something belongs in a scheme.  Synonym: attribute.



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... multitude who are only capable of judging from external appearances. As their numbers increased their labors became proportionally greater, and it was necessary to provide assistance and more agreeable to good order to assign to each his proper function. Inferior ministers were therefore instituted, who derived their appellations ...
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... restoration, probably, from the style of the richly ornamented mitre, about the time of Henry III. or Edward I. As the face is cleanly shaven, while the seal of Bishop Jocelin depicts him as bearded, some antiquaries hold this monument to belong to Bishop Roger, and assign to Bishop Jocelin the one formerly attributed to Bishop Herman. If, however, differences of opinion exist concerning the identity of these two effigies, they are as nothing compared to the uncertainty regarding the next, ...
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... greatest power was from the Norman conquest of England to the reign of Edward III. But there was a long and gloomy period before Feudalism ripened into an institution,—from the dissolution of the Roman Empire to the eighth and ninth centuries. I would assign this period as the darkest and the dreariest in the history of Europe since the Roman conquests, for this reason,—that civilization perished without any one to chronicle the changes, or to take ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume V • John Lord
 
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... learned Mr. Swinton, of Oxford, having one day remarked, that one man, meaning, I suppose, no man but himself, could assign all the parts of the Ancient Universal History to their proper authors, at the request of sir Robert Chambers, or myself, gave the account which I now transmit to you, in his own hand, being willing that of so great a work the history ...
— Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 - The Works Of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., In Nine Volumes • Samuel Johnson
 
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... very insufficient and unsatisfactory reason to assign for the young man's solitary habits that he was the subject of an antipathy. For what do we understand by that word? When a young lady screams at the sight of a spider, we accept her explanation that she has a natural antipathy to the creature. When a person expresses a repugnance to some ...
— A Mortal Antipathy • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
 
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