assignat

[ as-ig-nat; French a-see-nya ]

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noun

, French History.

, plural as·sig·nats [as, -ig-nats, a, -see-, nya].

one of the notes issued as paper currency from 1789 to 1796 by the revolutionary government on the security of confiscated lands.

assignat

/ ˌæsɪˈnjɑː; asiɲa; ˈæsɪɡˌnæt /

French history the paper money issued by the Constituent Assembly in 1789, backed by the confiscated land of the Church and the émigrés

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1780–90; < French < Latin assignātus assigned (past participle of assignāre ). See assign, -ate ¹

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C18: from French, from Latin assignātum something appointed; see assign

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He would not even change an assignat to take for what I drank, which was not a little; and I therefore owe him for it.

And yet Cambon steadily insisted that the security for the assignat currency was perfect.

Ominous it was when persons compelled to take this loan found for an assignat of one hundred francs only one franc was allowed.

The lettering in the corners proclaims death to any one who should dare to counterfeit the assignat.

On several assignat-fans the money card, the seven of diamonds, is introduced, its significance being sufficiently obvious.

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