Consideration, determination, ordinance.

The action or fact of ordaining; appointment; authoritative order; institution; ordinance; (in later use esp.) ordination to the priesthood.

The action of decreeing or ordaining. Obsolete.

Authoritative appointment, prescription, order. Obsolete.

= assignment, n. (in various senses).

The action of ordaining or directing what is to be done; direction, decree, ordinance, dictation.

The action or an act of appointing or nominating a person (for a post, etc.) or of determining a place for a meeting.

Chiefly of God, a god, fate, etc.: the action or fact of ordaining or decreeing. Now rare.

The action or an act of prescribing or setting down something beforehand, esp. as a rule, law, etc.; a thing which is prescribed or set down…

prescription, prescribing.

Appointment to office, nomination, designation; setting apart for a purpose. Obsolete.

The action of specifying or fixing a time, place, etc.; the condition of being specified. Obsolete. rare.

gen. The action or an act of setting aside or appointing something (now esp. money) to or for a particular purpose or use.

A consigning to a state or condition. Obsolete.

The fact of having been reassigned; a new or different assignment.

= reassignment, n.

Delivering over; delivery, committal, allotment.

The action of defining or fixing; determination.

The action of destining, appointing, foreordaining, or setting apart to a particular use, purpose, or end; the fact of being destined. (In modern…

The action or fact of setting aside or designating something as being the special share or responsibility of a particular person, department, etc…