English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Assiduities
(pl. )
of Assiduity
Assiduity
(n.)
Constant or close application or attention, particularly
to some business or enterprise; diligence.
Assiduity
(n.)
Studied and persevering attention to a person; --
usually in the plural.
Assiduous
(a.)
Constant in application or attention; devoted;
attentive; unremitting.
Assiduous
(a.)
Performed with constant diligence or attention;
unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
Assiege
(v. t.)
To besiege.
Assiege
(n.)
A siege.
Assientist
(n.)
A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the
parties to the Assiento contract.
Assiento
(n.)
A contract or convention between Spain and other powers
for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp.
the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.
Assign
(v. t.)
To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
Assign
(v. t.)
To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out
authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel
for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
Assign
(v. t.)
To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer
to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of
creditors.
Assign
(v.)
A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an
appurtenance.
Assign
(n.)
A person to whom property or an interest is transferred;
as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assignability
(n.)
The quality of being assignable.
Assignable
(a.)
Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or
designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an
assignable quantity.
Assignat
(n.)
One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by
the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the
security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been
appropriated by the state.
Assignation
(n.)
An appointment of time and place for meeting or
interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a
bad sense.
Assignation
(n.)
A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Assignation
(n.)
The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.