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noun

Assignation n.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. "This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces."

An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. "While nymphs take treats, or assignations give."

A making over by transfer of title; assignment.

House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... him or the first act of it. Then when the glitter of lights filled the building as the curtain went down she looked about her with veiled expectancy. She knew Alton of Somasco, and that if he intended to keep the assignation he would then come when ...

— Alton of Somasco • Harold Bindloss

... had, and perhaps it was part of her recurrent irritation also, a feeling as though one had followed something fine and beautiful into a net—into bird lime! These furtive scuffles, this sneaking into shabby houses of assignation, was what we had made out of the suggestion of pagan beauty; this was the reality of our vision of nymphs and satyrs dancing for the joy of life amidst incessant sunshine. We had laid hands upon the wonder and glory of bodily love and ...

— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells

... festival, when all the citizens are drunk, or sleeping, or when the city is on fire. But as it is, not one of these occasions is present, to enable her to come to thee escaping observation. And a woman of good family is very different from a dancing girl. For when she leaves her home, on such an assignation, she wraps herself up, disguising her identity, and creeps along timidly making herself small, wishing even darkness darker, in addition to the screen provided by all the other circumstances that ...

— Bubbles of the Foam • Unknown

... affection for her with Antoinette Nowak—a mere stenographer. And a lot of satisfaction Antoinette would get—the cheap upstart—when she learned, as she would, that Cowperwood loved her so lightly that he would take an apartment for Rita Sohlberg and let a cheap hotel or an assignation-house do for her. ...

— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... 2 in Rivington Street has 600 rooms. Together they are capable of housing about twelve per cent of all who nightly seek the cheap lodging houses, not counting the Raines law hotels, which are chiefly used for purposes of assignation. The Bowery houses have felt the competition, and have been compelled to make concessions that profit the lodger. The greatest gain to him is the chance of getting away from there. At the Mills ...

— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis

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