consign

To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.

Verb

To transfer to the custody of, usually for sale, transport, or safekeeping.
To entrust to the care of another.
- For virtue’s image yet poſſeſt her mind, / Taught by a maſter of the tuneful kind : / Atrides, parting for the Trojan war, / Conſign’d the youthful conſort to his care. - 1726, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope,...
To send to a final destination.
- to consign the body to the grave
- And this remarkable Property of Love will ſuggeſt to us one Reaſon, why Acts of Charity ſhall be enquir’d after ſo particularly, at the Day of general Account ; becauſe Good Men are then to be conſign’d over to another...
- This firm regularly consigns margarine in palletised wagon-loads to a wide variety of destinations. - 1961 September, B. Perren, “The Tilbury Line serves industrial North Thameside”, in Modern Railways, page 359:
To assign; to devote; to set apart.
- The French commander, charmed with the greatneſs of your ſoul, accordingly conſign’d it [a donation] to the uſe for which it was intended by the donor[…] - a. 1700, John Dryden, “Dedication”, in The British Poets,...
To stamp or impress; to affect.
- Ennoble my ſoul with great degrees of love to thee, and conſign my ſpirit with great fear, religion and veneration of thy holy name and laws[…] - 1650, Jeremy Taylor, “Devotions for ordinary days”, in The Rule and...

Borrowed from Middle French consigner or directly from Latin cōnsignō (“furnish with a seal”), from con- + signō (“mark, sign”).