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  • Molta azioni dei droni sono ripetute, forse a significare lo loro esistenza quasi robotica.

    No Fat Clips!!! : DONALD FAGEN – Snowbound 2007

  • A costo di risultare pedante, in inglese la parola change, oltre a significare cambiamento, che era ciò che avevano in mente in Toyota, designa anche il resto, e per estensione le monetine.

    No Fat Clips!!! : The Secret Life of Change 2007

  • As early as Anselm's De Grammatico we find a distinction between significare per se (signify as such) and significare per aliud (signify relatively).

    Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006

  • For where the mental concepts, i.e., the acts of understanding (intellectus), are considered to be signs themselves, the Aristotelian definition of significare

    Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003

  • Inde est quòd dilectioni vestræ dignum duximus significare, dominum imperatorem certum diem liberationis nostræ nobis praefixisse, in die lunæ proxima post vicessimum diem natiuitatis Domini, & die dominica proxima sequenti coronabimur de regno prouinciæ, quod nobis dedit.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed

  • Nam cum dicimus "deus," substantiam quidem significare uidemur, sed eam quae sit ultra substantiam; cum uero "iustus," qualitatem quidem sed non accidentem, sed eam quae sit substantia sed ultra substantiam.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Item cum dicitur "magnus uel maximus," quantitatem quidem significare uidemur, sed eam quae sit ipsa substantia, talis qualem esse diximus ultra substantiam; idem est enim esse deo quod magno.

    The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908

  • Thus Tzwivel (1507, f. 2) says: "Nota autem circularis .o. per se sumpta nihil vsus habet. alijs tamen adiuncta earum significantiam et auget et ordinem permutat quantum quo ponit ordinem. vt adiuncta note binarij hoc modo 20 facit eam significare bis decem etc."

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • [{3}] [Que nil significat; dat significare sequenti.]

    The Earliest Arithmetics in English Anonymous 1902

  • Baptismum non operari neque conferre regenerationem, fidem, gratiam Dei et salutem, sed tandum significare et obsignare ista.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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