assignation

assignation
    n 1: a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers) [syn:
         {assignation}, {tryst}]
    2: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning;
       distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats
       in the House of Representatives is based on the relative
       population of each state" [syn: {allotment}, {apportionment},
       {apportioning}, {allocation}, {parceling}, {parcelling},
       {assignation}]
    

Assignation \As`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. assignatio, fr. assignare:
   cf. F. assignation.]
   1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
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            This order being taken in the senate, as touching
            the appointment and assignation of those provinces.
                                                  --Holland.
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   2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview;
      -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a
      bad sense.
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            While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.
                                                  --Pope.
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   3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
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   {House of assignation}, a house in which appointments for
      sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
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ASSIGNATION, Scotch law. The ceding or yielding a thing to another of which
intimation must be made.
    

112 Moby Thesaurus words for "assignation":
      abalienation, accounting for, agreement, alienation, amortization,
      amortizement, answerability, application, appointment, arrangement,
      arrogation, ascription, assemblee, assembly, assignation house,
      assignment, at home, attachment, attribution, ball,
      bargain and sale, barter, bequeathal, blame, brawl, caucus,
      cession, charge, colloquium, commission, committee, conclave,
      concourse, conferment, conferral, congregation, congress,
      connection with, consignation, consignment, conventicle,
      convention, conveyance, conveyancing, convocation, council, credit,
      dance, date, deeding, deliverance, delivery, demise,
      derivation from, diet, disposal, disposition, eisteddfod,
      enfeoffment, etiology, exchange, festivity, fete, forgathering,
      forum, gathering, get-together, giving, honor, housewarming,
      imputation, lease and release, levee, love nest, meet, meeting,
      meeting place, palaetiology, panel, party, place of assignation,
      placement, plenum, prom, quorum, rally, reception, reference to,
      rendezvous, responsibility, saddling, sale, seance, session,
      settlement, settling, shindig, sit-in, sitting, soiree, surrender,
      symposium, synod, trading, transfer, transference, transmission,
      transmittal, tryst, turnout, understanding, vesting