To giue: to distribute: to assigne: to appoint: to depute or ordeyne: to impute or lay the fault or blame on. Assignare colonisagros. Cic. To distribute or appoint. Æqualiter aut sorte agros legionibus assignari puto oportere. Brutus Ciceroni. Be distributed. Assignare aliquantum ex agro. Cic. Assignati Pretore apparitores. Ci. Ordeined or appointed. Natura auibus cælum assignauit. Plin. Hath giuen or assigned the ayre. Assignare aliquid suo loco. Colum. To set a thing in place appoyuted. Assignare alicui dignationem principis. Tacit. Assignare morbos certis partibus. Cels. To note diseases peculiar to certaine partes. Assignatum tempus implere. Plin. iunior. The time presired or appointed. Assignatum Deo muous humanum defugere. Cic. Assignare. Cic. To impute or cast the blame or faute. Assignare infinitatem Deo. Plin. To attribute infinitenesse. Assignare culpam fortunæ. Cic. To lay the faute vpon fortune.

I. In gen.

A. Lit., to mark out or appoint to one, to assign; hence also, to distribute, allot, give by assigning, as t. t. of the division of public lands to the colonists (cf. assignatio; syn.: ascribo, attribuo): uti agrum eis militibus, legioni Martiae et legioni quartae ita darent, adsignarent, ut quibus militibus amplissime dati, adsignati essent, Cic. Phil. 5, 19 fin.; so id. ib. 2, 17, 43; id. Agr. 3, 3, 12: qui (triumviri) ad agrum venerant adsignandum, Liv. 21, 25; 26, 21; Sic. Fl. p. 18 Goes.—

B. Transf., to assign something to some one, to confer upon: mihi ex agro tuo tantum adsignes, quantum corpore meo occupari potest, Cic. Att. 3, 19, 3: munus humanum adsignatum a deo, id. Rep. 6, 15 fin.: apparitores a praetore adsignati, id. Verr. 2, 3, 25: ordines, id. Pis. 36, 88: quem cuique ordinem adsignari e re publicā esset, eum adsignare, Liv. 42, 33: equum publicum, id. 39, 19; so id. 5, 7: equiti certus numerus aeris est adsignatus, id. ib.: aspera bella componunt, agros adsignant, oppida condunt, to assign dwellingplaces to those roaming about (with ref. to I. A.), Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 8: natura avibus caelum adsignavit, appointed, allotted, Plin. 10, 50, 72, 141: de adsignandis libertis, Dig. 38, 4. 1 sq.: adsignavit eam vivam, pare/sthsen, he presented her, Vulg. Act. 9, 41 al.—

C. Trop., to ascribe, attribute, impute to one as a crime, or to reckon as a service (in the last sense not before the Aug. period; in Cic. only in the first signification).

a. In mal. part.: nec vero id homini tum quisquam, sed tempori adsignandum putavit, Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 27: haec si minus apta videntur huic sermoni, Attico adsigna, qui etc., id. Brut. 19, 74: ne hoc improbitati et sceleri meo potius quam imprudentiae miseriaeque adsignes, id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 4; so id. Fam. 6, 7, 3; id. Att. 6, 1, 11; 10, 4, 6; Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 2: petit, ne unius amentiam civitati adsignarent, Liv. 35, 31' permixtum vehiculis agmen ac pleraque fortuita fraudi suae adsignantes, Tac. H. 2, 60; Nigid. ap. Gell. 4, 9, 2; and without dat.: me culpam fortunae adsignare, calamitatem crimini dare; me amissionem classis obicere, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 50 Zumpt.—

b. In bon. part.: nos omnia, quae prospera tibi evenere, tuo consilio adsignare; adversa casibus incertis belli et fortunae delegare, Liv. 28, 42, 7: Cypri devictae nulli adsignanda gloria est, Vell. 2, 38: sua fortia facta gloriae principis, Tac. G. 14: hoc sibi gloriae, Gell. 9, 9 fin.: si haec infinitas naturae omnium artifici possit adsignari, Plin. 2, 1, 1, 3: inventionem ejus (molyos) Mercurio adsignat, id. 25, 4, 8, 26 al.—

II. Esp.

A. With the access. idea of object, design, to commit, consign, give over a thing to one to keep or take care of (rare, mostly post - Aug.): quibus deportanda Romam Regina Juno adsignata erat, Liv. 5, 22' Eumenem adsignari custodibus praecepit, Just. 14, 4 fin.; Dig. 18, 1, 62; 4, 9, 1.—Trop.: bonos juvenes adsignare famae, Plin. Ep. 6, 23, 2; so Sen. Ep. 110.—

B. To make a mark upon something, to seal it (post-Aug.): adsigna, Marce, tabellas, Pers. 5, 81: subscribente et adsignante domino, Dig. 45, 1, 126; 26, 8, 20: cum adsignavero iis fructum hunc, shall have sealed and sent, Vulg. Rom. 15, 28.—Trop.: verbum in clausulā positum adsignatur auditori et infigitur, is impressed upon, Quint. 9, 4, 29.