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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 As·sig·na·tion n.
 1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
    This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces.   --Holland.
 2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
    While nymphs take treats, or assignations give.   --Pope.
 3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
 House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.