Our first inquiry must therefore be directed to the signification of the term. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
The signification of Chinese characters. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
As words convert to waves, their very signification is what gets left behind. From Wordnik.com. [Captivation and Liberty in Wordsworth's Poems on Music] Reference
Beza himself confesseth, that beyond Jordan, is the proper signification of the Greek word beyond, Matthew 4: 15. From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
This double signification is possible because of Las Casas's contested status in Britain as an icon for abolitionists. From Wordnik.com. [London-Kingston-Caracas: The Transatlantic] Reference
Reading Hobbes's various accounts of language, it quickly becomes clear that the notion of signification is central. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Hobbes] Reference
The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness or ambiguity of their signification, which is caused by the sort of ideas they stand for. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
This naturalization is produced either by an admission into common speech, in some metaphorical signification, which is the acquisition of. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces] Reference
This kind of signification is called “secondary” signification. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
The phrase has a peculiar signification which is worth our consideration. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
For this special kind of signification he uses the words consignificatio and dispositio. From Wordnik.com. [Peter of Spain] Reference
It is this latter kind of signification that is the basis for Bradwardine's theory of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Insolubles] Reference
The word usury, in our language, has a bad signification, meaning unlawful or exorbitant interest. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The next thing therefore to be considered is, What kind of signification it is that general words have. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
The signification is no small thing. From Wordnik.com. [AKMA’s Random Thoughts] Reference
Consonant-Sounds, their character and inherent signification. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
In the treasures of wisdom is the signification of discipline. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
But these are facts which had no signification for Lord Ripon. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Observations on the nature of the prostate -- its signification. From Wordnik.com. [Surgical Anatomy] Reference
It was essential, pure, abstract signification, devoid of ornament. From Wordnik.com. [A Font A Day Keeps My Muse Away] Reference
Braybrooke's remarks upon this latter signification, I would remind old. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850] Reference
Tarquin sent to the oracle of Apollo at Delphi, to ask the signification. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Trulliber, retained by Gil Blas, notwithstanding the loss of their original signification. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
But into the allegorical signification of Mrs Fuller's phoenix, we confess we cannot penetrate. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
It is not a license, much less a command, to go about his treason: but a signification to him that. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
Al which signification is lost, by translating as the English bibles do, "I bring you good tydings.". From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The signification of the name is clear in Spanish; but in French the allusion is totally without meaning. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference
That is to say, it integrates in its signification, all that is inherently signified by all the other Vowels. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
As used by him, it had nearly the same signification as now applied to the word development by organogenists. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Lying (Chozeba), Secure (Joas), and Burning (Saraph), are substituted in place of the Hebrew names of the same signification. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 13: 1 Paralipomenon The Challoner Revision] Reference
The word "home," as used among the old races of Northern Europe, contains in its true signification something mystic and religious. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
His words had always an underlying signification for me apart from that which any casual listener would detect, and I had studied him so!. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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