significs

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De signifies down or from; epi significs on, near, during; and ex has the meaning out of.

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  1. The science or study of signification, meaning, or significance (ideal worth). Significs as a science would centralize and co-ordinate, interpret, inter-relate, and concentrate the efforts to bring out meanings in every form, and in so doing to classify the various applications of the signifying property clearly and distinctly. Baldwin, Dict. Phil. and Psychol., II. 529.

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