Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 318676 6508573 2009-04-30T22:47:48Z Interwicket 46132 iwiki +[[:et:assignation]] ==English== ===Noun=== {{en-noun}} # An appointment for a meeting, generally of a romantic or sexual nature. #:'''1749''' ''As soon as Mr. Barville saw me, he got up, with a visible air of pleasure and surprize, and saluting me, asked Mrs. Cole if it was possible that so fine and delicate a creature would voluntarily submit to such sufferings and rigours as were the subject of his '''assignation'''. — John Cleland, ''[http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=text&offset=167923312&textreg=1&query=assignation&id=CleMemo Memoirs of Fanny Hill.]'' ====Usage notes==== Modern usage confines the word to mean an agreed-upon place for illicit sex, but earlier usage is broader, and considerably more innocent. [[et:assignation]] [[fr:assignation]] [[io:assignation]] [[it:assignation]] [[hu:assignation]] [[ru:assignation]] [[fi:assignation]] [[te:assignation]] [[vi:assignation]]