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.
- B. Trop., to attest, certify, establish, vouch for: monumentis testata consignataque antiquitas, Cic. Div. 1, 40, 87: senatūs judicia, quae publicis populi Romani litteris monumentisque consignata sunt, id. Deiot. 13, 37: auctoritates nostras, to place beyond doubt, id. Clu. 50, 139; id. Red. in Sen. 11, 29; id. Div. in Caecil. 9, 28.
- II. To note, write down, to register, record (so lit. aud trop.; for the most part only in Cic.).
- A. Prop.: litteris aliquid, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 2: fundos publicis commentariis, id. de Or. 2, 55, 224: memoriam publicam (legum) publicis litteris, id. Leg. 3, 20, 46: motum temporis, id. Univ. 9 init.
- 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.