Assignats (As`signats) , bills or notes, to the number of 45 thousand million, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France in 1790, and based on the security of Church and other lands appropriated by it, and which in course of time sunk in value, to the ruin of millions.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Assien`to * Assiniboi`a