Resigno, resignas, resign. To open that is sealed.Literæ resignatæ. Ci. Letters opened.Testamenta resignare. Hor. Resignare. Vir. To close or fasten vp. Fata venientia resignare. Oui. To prophecie, open, and veclare deslinies to come. Resigno.To restorc: to resigne or surrender. Resigno quæ dedit Hor.I resiore those things he gane.Cuncta resigno. Hor. I resigne and surtender al. Resignare. Ci. To abolish: to for doe.Omnem tabularum fidem resignare. Ci. To put awaye all the credite that might be giuen to registers.Periuria Graia resignat, Sil.Resignatum æs. Fæst. Wages stopped by officers for negly-gent seruice in warres.Lumina morre resignat, id est, claudit. Vir. Resignare.To marke wel. vt, rubrica resignato. Col.
, Sil. 17, 426: (Mercurius) lumina morte resignat, opens the eyes of the dead whom he is about to conduct to Orcus, Verg. A. 4, 244.—B.Trop.1.To annul, cancel, invalidate, rescind, destroy (syn.: rescindere, dissolvere): tabularum fidem, Cic. Arch. 5, 9: ne quid ex constituti fide resignaret,
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, Flor. 4, 7, 14 Duker: pacta, Sil. 4, 790: jura leti (Mercurius), Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 90: quorum mors resignata est, Lact. 7, 22 fin.—2.To disclose, reveal (only poet.): venientia fata, Ov. F. 6, 535: hoc, quod latet, etc., Pers. 5, 28: verba, Mart. 9, 36, 5. — II. Ante-class. and in Hor. = rescribere (I. B. 2.), to transfer in an account; to assign to one: resignare antiqui dicebant pro rescribere, ut adhuc subsignare dicimus pro subscribere, Fest. p. 281, 31 Müll.: resignatum aes dicitur militi, cum ob delictum aliquod jussu tribuni militum, ne stipendium ei detur, in tabulas refertur. Signare enim dicebant pro scribere, id. pp. 284 and 285 ib.; Cato ap. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 244. — Hence, to give back, resign, = reddere: laudo manentem (Fortunam): si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit, Hor. C. 3, 29, 54: cuncta resigno, id. Ep. 1, 7, 34.