Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of the notes issued as paper currency in France (1789–1796) by the revolutionary government and secured by confiscated lands.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the notes forming the paper currency issued in France during the revolution from 1789 to 1796.
- noun In French law, the assignment of an annuity on an estate, by which the annuity is based on the security of the latter: now little used.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A
banknote used during theFrench Revolution , on the security of state land.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Causam huius assignat Cardanus, quod hydromel vetustate transeat in vinum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.
War and Peace 2003
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Ipse autem assignat vbi maneant duces: millenarij centenarijs.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Causam huius assignat Cardanus, quod hydromel vetustate transeat in vinum.
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It is painful to relate, that this powerful writer, and good man, who narrowly escaped the guillotine, expired in a garret, in extreme poverty, at the age of eighty-four; the only property he left being one assignat of fifty livres, worth not threepence in ready money.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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Napoleon had nothing remaining, but an assignat of one hundred sous, his pay being in arrear.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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I now possessed nothing in the world but an assignat of five hundred francs.
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You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy.
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You would scarcely imagine that this copper is deemed worthy to be hoarded; yet such is the people's aversion from the paper, and such their mistrust of the government, that not an housewife will part with one of these pieces while she has an assignat in her possession; and those who are rich enough to keep a few livres by them, amass and bury this copper treasure with the utmost solicitude and secresy.
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The people who receive what they earn in a currency they hold in contempt, are more anxious to spend than to save; and those who formerly hoarded six liards or twelve sols pieces with great care, would think it folly to hoard an assignat, whatever its nominal value.
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