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destinatio

destinatio, an assignment

dēstĭnātĭo, ōnis, f. [destino],
  • a setting fast, establishing; a resolution, determination, purpose, design (perh. not ante-Aug.): depascitur segetes destinatione ante determinata in diem, Plin. 8, 25, 39, § 95: porticum ex destinatione M. Agrippae a sorore ejus inchoatam peregit, id. 3, 2, 3, § 17; cf. Tac. H. 1, 77: nulli' placere partium destinatio, Liv. 32, 35 fin.: consulum, i. e. the election (opp. renuntiatione), Plin. Pan. 77, 1; cf. Tac. H. 2, 78; Plin. Pan. 95, 2: mortis, Plin. 36, 14, 21, § 96: exspirandi, id. 7, 45, 46, § 149: quietis, Stat. S. 3 praef.: aeternitatis, Plin. 36, 15, 24, § 114 et saep.; certus destinationis, ne, etc., resolute, Tac. A. 12, 32.—
  • II Esp. obstinacy, Amm.15, 10, 10 al.

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