assignedadj.
/əˈsʌɪnd/ Allotted, appointed, prescribed, specified, etc.: see the verb.
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the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [adjective] > assigned or allotted
admeasured1340
assignedc1374
allocate1533
allotted?1567
lotted1567
allocated?1713
warded1894
society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > ordaining, prescribing, or appointing > ordained, prescribed, or appointed
setc1050
assignedc1374
ordaineda1382
peremptor1397
prescriptc1460
constitute1483
prescribedc1503
assigneea1513
stinteda1513
peremptory1513
pointed1523
appointed1535
state1581
statuted1606
stated1644
instituted1647
constituted1651
indictive1656
indicteda1706
issued1760
prescriptive1765
ordered1780
mandated1944
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > going into detail > specially mentioned or indicated
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assignate1471
specified1645
denominated1750
express1848
specialized1893
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. i. iv. 16 By certeyne day assigned.
1758 Monthly Rev. 19 35 Certain assigned quantities.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. iii. §17. 56 Its motion as measured from an assigned position.
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Australian. Designating a transported convict whose service has been transferred by the government to a private individual; (also) designating the service of such a convict. Cf. assign v. 4b. Now historical.
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1806 Sydney Gaz. 16 Mar. 1/2 Any assigned Prisoner off the stores with Individuals, who do not appear as above will..be sentenced.
1837 J. D. Lang Hist. Acct. New S. Wales II. 31 The assigned servant of a respectable Scotch family residing near Sydney.
1844 Simmonds's Colonial Mag. 1 234/2 According to a return laid before the Melbourne corporation, it appears that the number of convicts in assigned service throughout the district of Port Phillip is 205, and employed on public works 126.
1919 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 82 232 Difficulties appeared at first and lasted throughout in the treatment of ‘assigned’ convict-labour.
1970 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 1 Mar. 12/6 Assigned servants (convicts) in the area had become quite undisciplined through lack of supervision.
2005 J. Atkinson Mary Proctor 99 The settler was supposed to provide his assigned convicts with all their basic necessities.
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Designating a person’s sex or gender as officially recorded at birth. Cf. birth n.1 Compounds 3.In later use chiefly in contexts where a person’s assigned sex or gender is contrasted with the sex or gender with which that person later identifies.
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1940 F. M. Teagarden Child Psychol. for Professional Workers xi. 377 [In section ‘Hermaphroditism’.] The child may have continued to live under the assigned sex until later development, perhaps at adolescence, made change necessary.
1965 Proc. 1st Internat. Congr. Hormonal Steroids II. 433 Many individuals lived satisfactorily and played the sexual role of their assigned gender.
1988 TV-TS Tapestry No. 52. 47/1 Our assigned birth sex is the result of nothing more than a physician's brief glance at our genitals at birth.
2014 H. Simmons & ‘F. White’ in L. Erickson-Schroth Trans Bodies, Trans Selves i. i. 4 Those of us who identify as trans..find that our affirmed gender doesn't match our assigned sex or societal expectations.
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