Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Joint signification; connotation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Joint signification.
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- noun
joint signification
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Some ampliation and restriction is effected by consignification, that is, by an aspect of a word ” by the tense of the verb, or by the gender of an adjective: in ˜homo est alba™, the feminine ending of ˜alba™ restricts ˜homo™ to supposit only for women.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006
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