ppl. a. [f. ASSIGN v. + -ED.] Allotted, appointed, prescribed, specified, etc.: see the vb.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Boeth., I. iv. 16. By certeyne day assigned.

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1758.  Month. Rev., 35. Certain assigned quantities.

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1837.  J. Lang, New S. Wales, II. 31. The assigned servant of a respectable Scotch family residing near Sydney.

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1862.  H. Spencer, First Princ., I. iii. § 17. (1875), 56. Its motion as measured from an assigned position.

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