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con-signo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.
I. To furnish with a seal, to affix, put one's seal to, to seal, to sign, subscribe (in good prose).
A. Prop.: “tabellas,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 90; id. Bacch. 4, 8, 83: “tabulas signis,Cic. Quint. 6, 25: “epistulas,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 46: “laudatio consignata cretā,Cic. Fl. 16, 37: “id decretum,Liv. 39, 48, 4; cf.: “conscripta consignataque,id. 29, 12, 15: “legem,Dig. 1, 19, 13: “testamentum,ib. 28, 1, 24: “tabellas dotis,a marriage contract, Suet. Claud. 29 (for which, briefly, dotem, id. ib. 26): tabulas proprio lino, propriāque cerā, Gai Inst. 2, 181: “pecuniam,Dig. 46, 1, 64.—
II. To note, write down, to register, record (so lit. aud trop.; for the most part only in Cic.).
B. Trop.: tot rerum atque tantarum insitae et quasi consignatae in animis notiones. Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 57: causam, de quā, etc., to make known, indicate (with exprimere), Gell. 14, 2, 17.—Hence, consignātē , adv. (of the P. a. consignatus, a, um, not in use; Hertz, consignatius); “acc. to II.,in a distinct manner, plainly, distinctly; comp., Gell. 1, 25, 8.—Sup.: “versus consignatissime factus,Gell. 1, 15, 12; cf. the preced.
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