vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ASSIGN; assignment, allotment, appointment.
1580. Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong., Assignation d’argent, an assigning of money.
a. 1709. Atkins, Parl. & Pol. Tracts (1734), 256. These great Officers, who had the assigning of Sheriffs.
1751. Johnson, Rambl., No. 160, ¶ 2. The power of assigning to others the task of life.
