consignation
(kɒnsɪgˈneɪʃən)
[ad. L. consignātiōnem, n. of action f. consignāre to consign: so in F. (16th c. in Littré).]
† 1. The action of marking or blessing with the sign of the cross, esp. in the rite of confirmation.
| 1537 in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. lxxxviii. 234 The words Signo te signo sanctæ crucis, et confirmo te, etc. with the consignation, with the cream, imposition of hands of the Prelats, be the signes. 1605 L. Hutten An Answere 100 This consignation of the childs forehead in Baptisme. 1617 Bp. Hall Quo Vadis §14 The daily and frequent consignation with the crosse is not to no purpose. 1642 Jer. Taylor Episc. (1647) 34 The holy Ghost was..given to faithfull people after Baptisme..only by Apostolicall, or Episcopall consignation and imposition of hands. 1868 J. H. Blunt Ref. Ch. Eng. I. 459 Consignation with holy chrism. |
† b. fig. Obs. Cf. to seal.
| 1633 Bp. Hall Hard Texts 439 His eternall consignation of his elect, and his careful marking them out for their preservation. 1660 Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. iv, This blessed person made..glorious by miraculous consignations. 1822 Heber in Jer. Taylor's Wks. (1839) I. p. cclviii, Extraordinary effects and miraculous consignations. |
† 2. Sealing, signing; confirmation or ratification under seal; attestation. Obs.
| 1605 M. Sutcliffe Briefe Exam. Petit. Lay Cath. 18 The scriptures being consigned by god..need no new consignation..of the pope. 1647 Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. v. 98 If a generall and indefinite Consignation or Tradition be sufficient to warrant euery particular that pretends to be Tradition. 1654 ‘Palæmon’ Friendship 26 After so solemn a Consignation of Secrecy 'twixt the Conspiratours. 1849 W. Fitzgerald tr. Whitaker's Disput. 311 The apostles' consignation of the canon of scripture. |
† 3. A consigning to a state or condition. Obs.
| 1650 Jer. Taylor Holy Living (1727) 200 As the hope of salvation is a good disposition towards it, so is despair a certain consignation to eternal ruin. 1684 T. Hockin God's Decrees 312 The doing of our duty is the truest consignation to happiness. |
† 4. The action of formally delivering or making over into another's hands. Obs.
| 1612 W. Shute Fougasses's Venice II. 499 The forme of the consignation [of prisoners] inregestred by a publike Notary. 1678 tr. Gaya's Art of War i. 67 The Consignation being made, and the Sentinels relieved. |
5. The action of formally paying over money, as into a bank, or to a person legally appointed to receive it; also a sum of money thus deposited. In Sc. Law: ‘The depositation in the hands of a third party of a sum of money, which is the subject either of a dispute or of a competition’ (W. Bell); formerly also as a pledge, as in quots. 1670, 1885.
| 1588 J. Mellis Brief Instr. B vij b, By consignation of debtes. 1670 Mauchline Sess. Rec. in Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. (1885) 206 The Session declared her consignation forfaltit. 1721 Lond. Gaz. No. 5969/3 Paper-Effects brought into the Offices of the Receivers of Consignations [in Paris]. 1754 Erskine Princ. Sc. Law (1809) 211 An instrument of consignation..being but the assertion of a notary, cannot fix the receipt of consigned money upon the consignatary, without an acknowledgment subscribed by himself. 1869 Act 32–3 Vict. c. 116 §7 Payment..by consignation thereof in the bank specified in the security. 1885 Edgar Old Ch. Life Scot. 205 Every accuser had to table so much money as a pledge that the accusation would be proved, and the money so pledged was forfeited to the Session for pious uses in the event of its being found that the charge was either false or not proven. This pledge was called a Consignation, and the common amount of it was 40/Scots. |
6. The action of consigning goods for sale or custody; = consignment 4. to the consignation of: = addressed or directed to as consignee.
| 1755 N. Magens Insurances I. 340 Invoice of Sugars..shipped..to the Consignation of Mr. J. L. D. and Mr. J. B. 1758 Ld. Mansfield in Burrow Rep. I. 494 There might have been a former consignation, and some former insurance made upon the goods. 1837 Whittock Bk. Trades (1842) 220 If goods consigned be generally sold on credit at the place of consignation, the Factor will be vindicated, etc. 1884 Sala Journ. due South i. v. (1887) 67 After unloading what cargo he had to the consignation of Nice. |
† 7. Astrol. (See quot.) Obs.
| 1656 W. Dugard Gate Lat. Unl. 165 By calculating the motions of the stars, they make Ephemerides, that is, consignations at the noon-hour of every day, where every planet will bee, and of what aspect towards one another. 1688 R. Holme Armoury ii. 27/2 Ephemerides is the consignation of the Planets, where they be every Noon. |