Verb

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* {{quote-book, year=1560, author=Peter Whitehorne, title=Machiavelli, Volume I, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Thei devide all their inhabiters into divers partes: and every parte thei name of the kinde of those weapons, that thei use in the warre. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=XXXVII His owne two hands the holy knots did knit, 325 That none but death for ever can devide ; His owne two hands, for such a turne most fit, The housling fire[*] did kindle and provide, And holy water thereon sprinckled wide; At which the bushy Teade a groome did light, 330 And sacred lamp in secret chamber hide, Where it should not be quenched day nor night, For feare of evill fates, but burnen ever bright. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1630, author=William Pemble, title=A Briefe Introduction to Geography, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The greater circles are those which devide this earthly globe into equall halfes or Haemispheres. }}

Verb

(en verb)

(lb) To designate or set apart something for some purpose.

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(lb) To appoint or select someone for some office.

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(lb) To allot or give something as a task.

*(Robert Southey) (1774-1843)

*:The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned .

* (1796-1859)

*:He assigned to his men their several posts.

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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.

(lb) To attribute or sort something into categories.

To transfer property, a legal right, etc., from one person to another.

To give (a value) to a variable.

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