• (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. • (n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. • (n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/assignation/
As`sig·na'tion noun [ Latin assignatio , from assignare : confer French assignation .] 1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. « This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/A/133