assigned, ppl. a.
(əˈsaɪnd)
[f. assign v. + -ed.]
Allotted, appointed, prescribed, specified, etc.: see the vb.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. i. iv. 16 By certeyne day assigned. 1758 Month. Rev. 35 Certain assigned quantities. 1837 J. D. Lang New S. Wales II. 31 The assigned servant of a respectable Scotch family residing near Sydney. 1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §17. (1875) 56 Its motion as measured from an assigned position. |