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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
consign .
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Examples
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He poses as a martyr, and cries out that "the blood of the martyr is the seed of faith"; he pours out imprecations upon other religious sects; calls down maledictions upon the qualified doctors, who are to him merely "sorcerers and poisoners"; consigns "the vipers of the press" to destruction; and, carried away by the violence of his anathemas, launches this peroration upon the ears of his admiring audience:
Modern Saints and Seers Jean Finot 1890
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The description consigns "Xanadu" to parentheses and fails to mention that this monumental carving belonged to the fabled structure immortalized in Coleridge's poem.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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It's fueled by an all-consuming overwork ethic that equates anything but nonstop busyness as slacking and consigns all self-worth to output.
Joe Robinson: Burnout S.O.S.: Increase Your 'Worth Ethic' and Save Your Health Joe Robinson 2010
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Mark Hix, perhaps anticipating a Welsh backlash, goes for caerphilly in his book British Regional Food, while Delia consigns any such concerns to the bottom of Lyn Tegid, and plumps for an equal mix of cheddar and parmesan for the Welsh Rarebit Soufflé in her Complete Cookery Course.
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It's fueled by an all-consuming overwork ethic that equates anything but nonstop busyness as slacking and consigns all self-worth to output.
Joe Robinson: Overwork S.O.S.: Increase Your 'Worth Ethic' and Save Your Health Joe Robinson 2010
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The description consigns "Xanadu" to parentheses and fails to mention that this monumental carving belonged to the fabled structure immortalized in Coleridge's poem.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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In reality, however, the Islamic world has been divided into three classes: secular government that consigns religion to personal life (Egypt); ostensibly-religious, but essentially secular government that sanctions intrusive authority of clerics (Saudi Arabia); and outright religious government (Iran).
Alon Ben-Meir: Arab Spring and Revival of Islamic State Alon Ben-Meir 2011
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The description consigns "Xanadu" to parentheses and fails to mention that this monumental carving belonged to the fabled structure immortalized in Coleridge's poem.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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The description consigns "Xanadu" to parentheses and fails to mention that this monumental carving belonged to the fabled structure immortalized in Coleridge's poem.
Lee Rosenbaum: Barbarians Tamed: The Met's Timid "Khubilai Khan" Exhibition Lee Rosenbaum 2010
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It's fueled by an all-consuming overwork ethic that equates anything but nonstop busyness as slacking and consigns all self-worth to output.
Joe Robinson: Overwork S.O.S.: Increase Your 'Worth Ethic' and Save Your Health Joe Robinson 2010
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