Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having expressive force; significant.

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  • verb Present participle of signify.

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Examples

  • Webb smiled faintly at the term signifying his authority.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • Webb smiled faintly at the term signifying his authority.

    Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983

  • It was therefore decided that Brother David should under no circumstances be called abbot, the title signifying special authority.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • It was therefore decided that Brother David should under no circumstances be called abbot, the title signifying special authority.

    THE DIFFERENT DRUM M. SCOTT PECK 1987

  • Such being the environment of the Jewish residents of Alexandria, they soon acquired the vernacular and adopted the religion of the Greeks, who, having ever attached to their incarnate saviours the title signifying the Christ, or the anointed, were known as Christians.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • Hence the term signifying action denotes not the production of the relation, but purely the relation of the Originator to the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Definition Rickets of vitamin D deficiency is a common nutritional disorder under 3 yrs of age, is the term signifying a failure in mineralization of growing bone or osteoid tissue.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • "Charisma" was originally a religious term signifying a gift of God: it often denotes (according to the 17th-century scholar-physician John Bulwer) a "miraculous gift of healing."

    Barack Obama, Shaman 2008

  • [18] Street cleaners are paid out of the proceeds of a tax derived from the slaughter of cattle, and the tax is known to Moorish butchers by a term signifying "_floos_ of the throat."

    Morocco S.L. Bensusan

  • Hsiang Yü thus chose for himself a title signifying that he was the leader or dictator of the kings.

    The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1938

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