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  • English Word Assignability Definition The quality of being assignable.
  • English Word Assignable Definition Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
  • English Word Assignat Definition 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.
  • English Word Assignation Definition The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
  • English Word Assignation Definition An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
  • English Word Assignation Definition A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
  • English Word Assigned Definition of Assign
  • English Word Assignee Definition A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.
  • English Word Assignee Definition In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
  • English Word Assigner Definition One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
  • English Word Assigning Definition of Assign
  • English Word Assignment Definition An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
  • English Word Assignment Definition A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
  • English Word Assignment Definition The writing by which an interest is transferred.
  • English Word Assignment Definition The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
  • English Word Assignor Definition An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
  • English Word Assimilability Definition The quality of being assimilable.
  • English Word Assimilable Definition That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To liken; to compa/e.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To become similar or like something else.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
  • English Word Assimilate Definition To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
  • English Word Assimilated Definition of Assimilate
  • English Word Assimilating Definition of Assimilate
  • English Word Assimilation Definition The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
  • English Word Assimilation Definition The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
  • English Word Assimilative Definition Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.
  • English Word Assimilatory Definition Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.