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[ by British merchants under the treaty of Utrecht, 1713, was abrogated or relinquished in 1750. a ign (a-sin'), v. t. [ The priests had a portion a igned them. Gen. xlvii. 22. Mr. Buckle's fundamental error lay in the attempt to a ign distinct parts to elements of human nature that in reality cannot be separated. J. Fiske, Evolutionist, p. 217. To each [province] was a igned a governor experienced His [a soldier's] fighting condition was needed not on one or two days consecutively, but on many days, and not against a day punctually a ignable , but against a season or period perhaps of months. De Quincey, Plato. While on the one hand industry is limited by capital, so on the other every increase of capital gives, or is capable of giving, additional employment to industry; and this without a ignable limits. J. S. Mill, Pol. Econ., I. 82. 3. Capable of being attributed; attributable.4. In law, predicable; capable of being pointed out or substantiated: as, perjury is not as sign a manner. ble of testimony on an immaterial point. a ignably (a-si'na-bli), adv. In an a ignable a ignat (as'ig-nat; F. pron. a-se-nyä'), n. [F., 2. In French law, the a ignment of an annuity on an estate, by which the annuity is based on the security of the latter: now little used. a ignation (as-ig-na's hon), n. [F. as sign a tion, in the law who dealt with taxation and finance. C. Elton, Orig. of Eng. Hist., p. 336. 2. To point out; show; designate; specify. All as the Dwarfe the way to her a ynd. The a ignation of particular names to denote particular Spenser, F. Q., I. vii, 28, objects. Adam Smith , Origin of Languages. a ignation 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting: used chiefly of love-meetings, and now generally in a bad sense.-3. The legal transfer of a right or title, or the deed by which this is made; an a ignment. -4t. Paper currency; a bill; an a ignat.