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ent state, with the sense of fixedness in that state, or permanence of possession; as, to consign the body to the grave. At the day of general account, good men are to be consigned over to another state. Atterbury.

A consignee. [Obs.] Jenkins.

The act of consigning; the act of delivering or committing to another person, place, or state. [Obs.] So is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. Jer. Taylor.

One of several that jointly sign a written instrument, as a treaty. Fallows.

Joint signature. [R.] Colgrave.

A countersign; a watchword.

The person to whom goods or other things are consigned; a factor; -- correlative to consignor. Consigner and consignee are used by merchants to express generally the shipper of merchandise, and the person to whom it is addressed, by bill of lading or otherwise. De Colange.

One who consigns. See Consignor.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Joint signification. [R.]

Consignificant; jointly significate. [R.]

or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.

The act of consigning; consignation.

One who consigns something to another; -- opposed to consignee. [Written also consigner.]

To consign beforehand; to make a previous consignment of.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

enterprise; to supply beforehand; as, a merchant advances money on a contract or on goods consigned to him.

; one of which he keeps in possession, one is kept by the shipper, and one is sent to the consignee of the goods. -- Bill of mortality, an official statement of the number of deaths in a place or district within a given time; also, a district required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mo…

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Ps. xxxvii. 5. Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. Shak.

To doom to punishment in the future world; to consign to perdition; to curse.