(verb) : rĕ-signo, āvi, ātum, 1
* To unseal, open (class.).
* Lit.: litteras,Plaut. Trin. 3, 3, 65; Cic. Att. 11, 9, 2: testamenta,Hor. Ep. 1, 7, 9; Dig. 28, 1, 23; 29, 3, 6: loculos,Plin. 14, 13, 14, § 89.—Poet.: perjuria Graia resignat,breaks through the faithless band,Sil. 17, 426: (Mercurius) lumina morte resignat, opens the eyes of the dead whom he is about to conduct to Orcus, Verg. A. 4, 244.
* Ante-class. and in Hor. = rescribere (I. B. 2.), to transfer in an account; to assign to one: resignare antiqui dicebant pro rescribere, ut adhuc subsignare dicimus pro subscribere,Fest. p. 281, 31 Müll.: resignatum aes dicitur militi, cum ob delictum aliquod jussu tribuni militum, ne stipendium ei detur, in tabulas refertur. Signare enim dicebant pro scribere, id. pp. 284 and 285 ib.; Cato ap. Serv. Verg. A. 4, 244. — Hence, to give back, resign, = reddere: laudo manentem (Fortunam): si celeres quatit Pennas, resigno quae dedit,Hor. C. 3, 29, 54: cuncta resigno,id. Ep. 1, 7, 34.
* To annul, cancel, invalidate, rescind, destroy (syn.: rescindere, dissolvere): tabularum fidem,Cic. Arch. 5, 9: ne quid ex constituti fide resignaret,violate,Flor. 4, 7, 14 Duker: pacta,Sil. 4, 790: jura leti (Mercurius),Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 90: quorum mors resignata est,Lact. 7, 22 fin.
* To disclose, reveal (only poet.): venientia fata,Ov. F. 6, 535: hoc, quod latet, etc.,Pers. 5, 28: verba, Mart. 9, 36, 5.