Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Agreement of name and meaning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Agreement of name and meaning.
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- noun obsolete Agreement of
name andmeaning .
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the same time, talk of univocation was superseded by signification, by implication univocal signification unless equivocation was identified.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006
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In this way, we can understand the importance played in the twelfth century of univocation in contrast with appellation.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006
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In the twelfth century, the primary distinction was that between signification, or univocation, and appellation.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006
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To these must be added further properties of terms which were important in the theory's gestation in the twelfth century but were later no longer included as distinct properties: univocation, equivocation, adjectivation, substantivation and so on.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006
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