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Definition of Consigning
1. consign [v] - See also: consign
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consigning
Literary usage of Consigning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"... of consigning to other houses in the Netherlands. The third authorizes him to
draw bills on his principals, for the purposes of his agency, ..."
2. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1823)
"Ten years labour of happy diligence may render a student capable of consigning
to posterity a history as universal in its topics, as that of the historian ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... thirteenth century, dignified by consigning it to their pages. JP KIRSCH.
Joanna of Portugal, BLESSED, b. at Lisbon, 16 February, 1452; d. at Aveiro, ..."
4. Memoirs of James Hardy Vaux by James Hardy Vaux (1819)
"Fatal Consequences of consigning a young Person to a Jail. — Meet with a fellow
Prisoner, who introduces me to the Company of professed Thieves. ..."
5. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"351, majority holding factor advancing money to carrier wrongfully consigning
goods is guilty of conversion. Factor accepting bills drawn upon him, ..."
6. Observations on "The Two Sons of Oil": Containing a Vindication of the by William Findley (1812)
"... of consigning the patriarchs, who had slaves in abundance, nor the apostles,
who acknowledged the relation of master and slave, and prescribed their ..."
7. Lectures on India: Also, Descriptions of Remarkable Customs and Personages by Caleb Wright, John James Weitbrecht, Alexander Duff (1849)
"consigning an Image of Kali to the Ganges. NEXT to the annual festival of Durga,
one of the most popular in Eastern India is that of the Charak ..."
8. A Practical Treatise on the Forms of Process: Containing the New Regulations by Thomas Beveridge, Scotland Jury Court (1826)
"Of consigning the expenses incurred in this preliminary adjustment; and penalty
for not lodging amendments, frc. within the time sped- fied in the ..."
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