How To Use Signified In A Sentence

the signifier is linked to the signified
The Waterford publicans, who have signified their intention to defy the ban, are following in the footsteps of their colleagues in Kerry, Cork, Donegal and Wexford.
Whether we take the signified or the signifier, Saussure argues, language has neither ideas nor sounds that existed before the linguistic system, but only conceptual and phonic differences that have issued from the system.
This decision signified a radical change in their policies.
Post Office of the said City of Montreal; that every such election or amotion shall be subject to the review of Our said Visitor, whose determination thereon being signified in writing to the said Governors within sixty days after such delivery as aforesaid at the said Post McGill and its Story, 1821-1921

The twelfth, _bayoguin_, signified a "cotquean," a man whose nature inclined toward that of a woman. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
A dot after a note ordinarily meant that it was half as long again as its normal value, but otherwise it simply signified that the notes on either side were irregular in some way. 5.
The attributes of a king are a mark of the absence of the attribute signified by the word omnipotent, (or, are _evidence_ of the absence of that attribute.) A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
She was in complete disagreement, and signified this fact immediately.
The Referees Committee was formed at a meeting attended by 17 referees with three excused, but to date there are still two referees who have not answered the call, or indeed, signified their intentions, one way or another.
This decision signified a radical change in their policies.
Derrida insisted that the very way in which language functions, that is, signification, necessitates an unbridgeable gap between the signifier and the signified.
But the softness in Grudge's eyes signified nothing more than plain humanity. FAIRYLAND
Wee render vnto your highnesse vnspeakeable thanks for those things which by your letters, and by your discreete subiect the Abbat of Lisa, you haue signified vnto vs, and also for that you are right willing and desirous to begin and to conclude betweene vs both, a league of peace and amitie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
The next name given to it was _forte-piano_, which signified soft, with power; and this name became _piano-forte_, which it still retains. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867.
Their acceptance of Lydia is total and is signified by a gesture of affection from his mother.
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
But I don't think that there need be an intrinsic link of signifier to signified for a language to be used in nonarbitrary ways. Binary Oppositions: Good or Bad?
For his villain-in-chief, however, Garner repurposes a name filched from the Norse pantheon - originally, Nastrond signified the underworld Shore of Corpses, but in Garner's Alderley he is the unseen Great Spirit of Darkness, moving against the child protagonists by means of minions like the "svart alfar". Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
(antiphone) or from the adjective antiphonos, and that it signified a chant by alternate choirs. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
The mother's abandonment of the stance of a nostalgic exile is signified by her farewelling her parents at their graveside in Cantonese; she had greeted them on her arrival in Japanese.
There are a number of high profile people who have already signified their intention to take part and support the venture and they include Pauleen McLynn and Tommie Tiernan.
Consequently the forms of paternalism signified by feudal relations are more likely to be a recent tradition rather than a distant memory.
There is a perpetual shift in the relationship between signifiers and signifieds.
The intimacy of signifier and signified in the iconic sign negates the distance which defines phonetic language.
But this interruption also blocks the passage of ideas by shifting emphasis away from the signified.
Above all, the system is destructive of faith, having a tendency to substitute passive acquiescence for real conviction; and therefore I should not say that the excess of it was popery, but that it had once and actually those characters of evil which we sometimes express by the term popery, but which may be better signified by the term idolatry; a reverence for that which ought not to be reverenced, leading to a want of faith in that which is really deserving of all adoration and love. The Christian Life Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps
This opinion was in practice formulated based on the nugatory answer to a linguistic conception that whether a music segment is clearly signified is justified on the basis of its signified relations.
What if “secondhand,” “used” or “preowned” signified an attractive, desirable option for everyone, rather than a poverty-driven necessity? THE STORY OF STUFF
Since the binding of signifier to signified is non-essential — such that a cigar may just be a cigar — and is often even idiolectic and idiosyncratic — such that what is significant to the advocate, A, may be significant only to them — the conventionality of semantic associations must be taken as a standard of approximate objectivity in order to distinguish the uncoupling of conventionally-accepted pairings (as, say, where the advocate is highlighting a well-established symbolism of anti-Semitism) from the rejection of idiosyncratically-asserted couplings (as, say, where the advocate is reading a pepper mill as a phallic symbol); the former constitutes insignification while the latter is simply a denial of significance. Arguing With Geeks 8
Slavery signified, of course, involuntary migration and coerced labor.
Why had I not seen that all Buddy's foolery, his flatulence, his stumbles, his bad memory, and his popeyed look of suffocation signified that he had only days left? Beard
What gives the sign its linguistic value is the system of differences, on the one hand between signifiers, on the other be - tween signifieds (or significata, some writers in English preferring “significatum” to “signified” as a noun). STRUCTURALISM
Things nonapparent at the moment can be signified by present appearances that remind us of them (admonitive signs), as smoke is the sign of fire, a scab is the sign of a wound (AM SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY
Villain_ once had none of the odium which is now associated with the term; but it signified one who, under the feudal system, rented or held lands of another. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
The money was fantastic but, in reality, I was more appreciative of the recognition it signified.
On the contrary, the relationship between signifier and signified is arbitrary.
She signified her approval with a smile.
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
Ibrahim advanced and prostrated himself at the foot of his throne; and at the same moment two of the high functionaries present threw a caftan of honor over his shoulders -- a ceremony which signified that the sultan had conferred upon him the title of beglerbeg, or "prince of princes. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
The French word _ennui_, which now only means weariness of mind, signified formerly injury, and the vexation or hatred caused thereby; something like the English word "annoy," as in Shakespeare's Richard III., v. 3: Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
Nay, by these things He signified, that the uncandid soul is not even thereby persuaded; and He made it plain that His disciples too were blamed by them without cause.
Liberty Times: Opposition Taiwan Solidarity Union Chairman Huang Kun-hui said the legislative decision to put the ECFA directly to a second reading amid tussles among lawmakers signified the legitimacy of the party's initiative to hold a national referendum on the trade pact, which he described as tying Taiwan closer to China. Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
The first Documenta exhibition signified Germany's reacceptance of avant-garde art, which had been banned by the Nazis as degenerate.
The state bureaucracies created by eighteenth-century absolutism signified the arrival of a universal class pursuing a universal interest.
The land question should have a distinct recognition as a true reform issue, and while committal to the policy signified by the term single tax, in its entirety, should be avoided, land speculation and monopoly should be condemned as a monstrous evil, and against that evil should be directed such special taxation of land values as will check and ultimately destroy it, without too rudely disturbing existing values. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891
The abbot, neither overawed by the strength nor by the quantity of the potion, took it off with what he himself would have called a feeling of solace and pleasance, and his voice became much more composed; he signified himself as comforted extraordinarily by the medicine, and willing to proceed to answer any questions which could be put to him by his gallant young friend. Castle Dangerous
At the moment there are twenty people who have signified their intention to travel.
The Recorder directed that the prosecution needed to prove an indecent intention, and Lord Ackner signified his approval of this.
In imperial literature British rule meant law and British force signified the protection of the weak against a barbarous bully.
Differences between the three principal components of R (diffusion rate tensor) up to an order of magnitude signified anisotropic motion of the spin label at some locations.
For Jews in New York, eating in Chinese restaurants signified that one was not a provincial or parochial Eastern European Jew, not a "greenhorn" or hick. Boing Boing: December 29, 2002 - January 4, 2003 Archives
Nevertheless, it was a smile that held no weight, for it signified a thought contradictory to its purpose.
During their 45 minutes on stage together, the frequent physical contact and chatter between the two signified a cozy relationship.
Here, a moment of a nonsticky tactile sensation – the conceptually implied object being signified by the conceptual cognition of feeling a commonsense orange held in our hand – is followed by a moment of a sticky tactile sensation. The Appearance and Cognition of Nonexistent Phenomena: Non-Gelug Presentation
Sextus does not challenge the possibility of admonitive signs; they presuppose no necessary connection between sign and thing signified, and they are adequate to account for the connections that we establish between things in everyday activities (AM SKEPTICISM IN ANTIQUITY
There were a few fallen trees in the roads and puddles; nothing else signified the terrible storm from the night.
He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal
Every minute that passed signified a smaller chance that they'd be placed on temp assignments for the day.
Papal policy might also be conveyed via bishops who visited Rome to attend synods or, in the case of metropolitans, to collect their pallium, the stole that signified their authority.
Becoming a father signified that he was now an adult.
There was a heave, then a thud that signified that the craft had beached.
She tried not to think too hard about what it was, or what its appearance signified. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
It is described by the house that naturally governs that matter and it is signified by the planet that rules the cusp of that house.
Consequently the forms of paternalism signified by feudal relations are more likely to be a recent tradition rather than a distant memory.
Notes are not to be understood as signs — signifying symbols arbitrarily ascribed to signified ideas in a code, a game of differentiation where the meaning of each sign is determined by its not being the other signs in the system, where its usage is delimited by its difference from them. Archive 2009-07-01
Another very important distinction between the free tenants and the villeins was the payment of _merchet_ on the marriage of daughters, which signified that the offspring of such marriages would be the lawful property of the lord. The Customs of Old England
Originally the term diocese (Gr. dioikesis) signified management of a household, thence administration or government in general. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
In his book The Peace Process, William Quant traces American-led negotiations from the mid-1970s when the term signified a "gradual, step-by-step approach to resolving one of the world's most difficult conflicts. Dissident Voice
The word “ridotto” is properly what we once signified by the word “reduit,” intrenchment; but “reduit” having sunk into a term of contempt among us, our editors translated A Philosophical Dictionary
So if someone asked me whether the use of the term tar baby, in isolation, signified a racist mentality, I really would have to demur. Is Tony Snow, Press Secretary to the Pres. a Racist?
The ring, heavy rope of white diamonds was an heirloom and signified permanency. ROSES ARE FOR THE RICH
The spiritual man also judges by approving what is right and reproving what he finds amiss in the works and morals of the faithful, such as in their almsgiving, which is signified by the phrase, "The earth bringing forth its fruit. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The new police signified a move away from a degree of popular control that had existed in some places over parish constables.
The word “ridotto” is properly what we once signified by the word “reduit,” intrenchment; but “reduit” having sunk into a term of contempt among us, our editors translated A Philosophical Dictionary
But perhaps it also signified something selfish. Times, Sunday Times
Quality and quantity, then, do not function like genera, for a genus is signified by any predicate that expresses what a subject is (e.g., in the sentence, ˜Man is an animal,™ ˜animal™ is the genus of man), and categories do not function in this way. Medieval Theories of the Categories
Even in church-related colleges, many wondered whether denominational affiliation signified anything of substance.
Sub-Ministry industrial grind is a favorite, though overdriven drum machines have never signified "postapocalyptic" to anybody but self-pitying goth kids with hyperactive imaginations. Chicago Reader
The intercom was a metal box that signified the end of my parent's marriage. Ryan Sindon: Upside-down
Stanley Cavell sees (hears) Poe's prose as "a parody's of philosophy's" (111) in just this respect, its iterative paranoia and "impish" wordplay as the mad antithesis of any overcome skepticism about the credited and signified world. Notes on 'Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian'
But Alfric is the extreme signifier of Roman Catholicism's violent signified, whereas the novel's various misguided Protestants merely signify postlapsarian man's natural depravity. The Little Professor:
He just now has signified, that the gentleman is dead, whose living he has had hope of; and he came pretendedly to tell Mrs. Jewkes of it; and so could speak this to her before me. Pamela
The 5th house cusp is almost exactly conjunct your son's natal 4 degree Pisces sun, so it is clear he is signified in this chart.
Whoever is the person signified by this tree he is sentenced to be deposed from the honour, state, and dignity of a man, to be deprived of the use of his reason, and to be and live like a brute, till seven times pass over him. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
But the allegory is a continued metaphor, in which the circumstances are palpably often purely imagery, while the thing signified is altogether real. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
The contrasting approaches to Europe signified a sharp difference between the major parties.
This policy has signified greater insecurity for women, because the so-called demobilisation of the paramilitary groups, who continue to control many regions of the country, has particularly affected women and girls," María Eugenia Ramírez of the Bogota-based Latin American Institute for Alternative Rights told IPS. AWID RSS Feed
She also has trompe l'oeil are you now also suspecting that I love not just the thing signified by the word trompe l'oeil, but the word itself? book wallpaper, but I don't actually need that: October 2006
+ According to the ancient arithmetick of the hand, wherein the little finger of the right hand contracted, signified an hundred. — Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
In 1990 Poland signified its desire to join the Council.
______________________________which it is stratified, territorialized, organized, signified, attributed, etc., as well as lines of deterritorialization down which it constantly flees. Inmanencia
The hands _tyned, tened_, closed, or shut in, signified _ten_; for there numeration _closed_. English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
In our happy innocence, we all theorized what this good omen might have signified.
Are we always aiming to flense the rich complexity of connotation and find the bare bones, to parse structures of signifiers into structures of signifieds? Archive 2009-07-01
Abbot of Inniscathay, had claimed tribute from Leinster, and had even signified his intention of assuming the position of ardri. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
He signified his content with a nod.
For this purpose it is necessary to learn to maintain the openness and serenity of mind as signified by the old expression, ‘Clear as a stainless mirror and calm as still water.’
The main entrance to the station concourse lies on the west side of the building, signified by a slight bulge as the glass side wall curves outward.
In it the participants share in the redemptive death and resurrection of Christ through sacramental communion with his body and blood, signified by consuming consecrated bread and wine.
I had been taught that “itis” at the end of a word signified some kind of inflammation and I was exposed to the insight that “gastr” was supposed to make you think about stomachs; so I creatively surmised correctly that the word “gastritis” might well relate to inflammation of the stomach. A Mind at a Time
The image of the lion signified power and strength.
If we presume the signifier is the signified we fall into the trap of logocentrism. An Exploration into an Integral Approach to Knowledge
There is really no other word in the English language to express the meaning of the ejaculative sound he made, which signified, equally, acquiescence, approval, disapproval, or anything. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
They anxiously sought to avoid the admission of expressions which might be odious in the ears of of Americans, although they were willing to admit into their system those _things_ which the _expressions_ signified. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
Yet, taught by the grillroom, he assumed this livery, wore off its shyness, and grew to like it for the best it signified. The Henchman
And after, the priest taketh the precious body of our Lord Jesu Christ and parteth it over the chalice, and this may to us be signified that our Lord parted himself to his disciples upon Sherethursday as before is said, and is that holy hostie parted in three, which three parts may betoken three manners of folk. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
The image of the lion signified power and strength.
A single from the first 24 balls faced signified the seriousness of his intent and, an occasional wristy whip to the leg‑side off the pace bowlers or delicate late cut off the spinners apart, risk was almost entirely eschewed. Essex 248-8, Leicestershire | County Championship Division Two match report
The correlatives of the signifieds aroused by such signifiers are emotional states; they remain private to each hearer and cannot be compared with each other, and so consensus cannot be achieved.
Whereas you have signified to us that your society have desired us to join with them in a public fast, in order to your intended communion, our answer is, that as we have formerly once and again insinuated unto you, that if you would in due manner lay aside what you call your manifesto, and resolve and declare that you will keep to the heads of agreement on which the United Brethren in London have made their union, and then publicly proceed with the presence, countenance, and concurrence of the The Emancipation of Massachusetts
During their 45 minutes on stage together, the frequent physical contact and chatter between the two signified a cozy relationship.
The main entrance to the station concourse lies on the west side of the building, signified by a slight bulge as the glass side wall curves outward.
The act of ablution is sympathetic magic, based as it is on the "like produces like" principle, the principle that action on the signifier (physical dirt) is, or results in, parallel action on the signified (spiritual sin). The Stain of Sin
Derived from the Afrikaans word for "apartness," apartheid is a term that came into usage in the 1930s and signified the political policy under which the races in South Africa were subject to "separate development. My Right Word
The word “ro mantic,” though lately come into vogue, patently did not function as a rallying cry since it signified too many different things (e.g., “anticlassical” to Friedrich Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
Interestingly, Rick had not decimated his vile detractors and signified that he was a saint.
It really signified the end of the band. Times, Sunday Times
_By Ampelus is signified the sea shore; or Ampelus, among the people of Cyrene, signifies the sea shore_. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I.
Let animal be the term signified by A, mortal by B, and immortal by C, and let man, whose definition is to be got, be signified by D. Prior Analytics
By common-wealth, I must be understood all along to mean, not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community, which the Latines signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language, is common-wealth, and most properly expresses such a society of men, which community or city in Second Treatise of Government
a courtezan, and the term concubinage to the latter, because a concubine is a substituted partner of the bed, therefore for the sake of distinction, ante-nuptial stipulation with a woman is signified by keeping a mistress, and post-nuptial by concubinage. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
She was in complete disagreement, and signified this fact immediately.
At the level of what Barthes calls the ‘vestimentary code’, the code of what is fashionable, prints and piping are signifiers whose signified is fashionable.
Derrida suggests that representation or signification is based on both a distance from a signified and a difference among terms.
The bond between the signifier and the signified is arbitrary
Columbine was emblematical of forsaken lovers.] [Footnote IV. 27: _There's rue for you; and here's some for me: -- we may call it herb of grace o 'Sundays: _] Probably a quibble is meant here, as _rue_ anciently signified the same as Hamlet
For by what right is it that fusibility comes to be a part of the essence signified by the word gold, and solubility but a property of it? An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
This spiritual authority is often signified by the bodily gestures of the priest while he or she is consecrating the elements while presiding at the Eucharist.
Worse yet, this signified the exclusion, eradication and extermination of this subsegment from societal discourse, radicalizing Timothy McVeigh and others and causing the OKC man-caused incident. The Volokh Conspiracy » Waco
Secondly, they be sent to enlumine to understanding unto knowledge, and this is signified Apocalypsis The Golden Legend, vol. 5
When the ten minutes are up, as signified by the ding of an egg timer, a piece of nautical equipment as pedigreed as an astrolabe or a sextant.
It is true that the title strictly signified no more than “lord”; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis. The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
There was once a brashness about Norman, signified by those garish shirts and the trademark wide-brimmed hat.
power signified by wealth title windowed office megacar eecgh! The Beauty-Power Axis
Train tracks and trains themselves have long signified both real and metaphorical journeys in African American literary and vernacular culture.
What signified his bringing a woman here to snotter and snivel, and bather their Lordships? The Heart of Mid-Lothian
So far twelve candidates have signified their intention to enter the fray here, but by the close of nominations it is likely there will be at least one more contender aiming to woo the 70,000-plus electorate.
The principal issue for the mystery plays was the representation of the divine, which conventionally was signified by a burnished gold mask in contradistinction to the blackening of the devil.
It is a naive mistake, however, to suppose that the Renaissance restored or reintegrated classical culture, or in any sense reunited classical signifiers with their classical signifieds.
The panegyric is directed toward the image of Louis, as signified by the bust, the statue, the fleurs-de-lis, and the words of the dedication, with which one of the Muses illustrates a central banner.
(see Beryl above), we are in no way bound to accept the Greek beryllos as the translation of shhm, and relying on the testimony of the various versions we may safely hold the onyx is the stone signified by shhm. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
As an item of personal property, the bag is signified by the 2nd-house ruler Venus, which is angular, showing it to be nearby.
Some said that Susan had given her young man the mitten, meaning thereby that she had signified that his services as a suitor were dispensed with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
Barthes declared that ' serious recourse to the nomenclature of signification ' was the mark of structuralism and advised interested readers to ' watch who uses signifier and signified, synchrony and diachrony.'
If in this verse is not signified Christ's taking on him our nature, how comes it to pass, that, in the next verse, which has an illative dependence upon this, the seed of Abraham are called his brethren? for his being their deliverer only would not make them his brethren; but his taking of our nature properly does. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
A low mumble may have signified assent, but probably didn't. Times, Sunday Times
It is a naive mistake, however, to suppose that the Renaissance restored or reintegrated classical culture, or in any sense reunited classical signifiers with their classical signifieds.
Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.
It was not only the day they received their certificates of graduation but it signified the next step up the educational ladder into primary school.
Both Kaachhi, Dhebaria and Vangadia Rabari matriarchs explained what every stitch, motif and pattern signified, how they were made, when they were worn, and how each group's handwork differed from the other's.
The end of the signifier/signified dialectic which facilitates the accumulation of knowledge and of meaning, the linear syntagma of cumulative discourse. Jean Baudrillard
He focused, so to speak, on the pragmatics of the signifier rather than on the vicissitudes of the signified.
Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
The black cloud presignified a violent storm.
Initially, the label signified that 100% of the wood used in a product was harvested by sustainable methods. FSC's 'Green' Label for Wood Products Gets Growing Pains
The cosmological constant, which Einstein signified by the Greek letter lambda, made it so.
The class of beings signified by a universal term of this sort is indeed prior to the universal term, e.g., the class of pale things to the universal term ˜pale™. Porphyry
Alexander signified his consent with a nod.
It is true that the title strictly signified no more than "lord"; yet the legends which connect these Cyprian princes with the goddess of love make it probable that they claimed the divine nature as well as the human dignity of Adonis. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
The latter portrays the geography of the country; the central massif is signified by three mountain peaks in the center of two oceans, each featuring a Spanish ship.
Taking its cue from structural linguistics, it will concentrate on the signifiers at the expense of the signifieds.
The resemblance between the signified and the signifier - the defining characteristic of an iconic sign - has to be a resemblance as perceived by someone.
And the sacraments of the old Law were a kind of protestation of that faith, inasmuch as they signified Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
It is not clear how it became assimilated into the word cailleach which from then onwards signified a 'nun' in the growing Christian society, while retaining in secular mythology its original meaning of 'old hag ', and carrying with it overtones of the sacred. Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore
All the simple ideas that go to the complex one signified by the term metal, being nothing but what he before comprehended and signified by the name lead. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
The contrasting approaches to Europe signified a sharp difference between the major parties.
The use of constant prices enabled an appreciation of the physical inputs since changes in an amount signified a change in volume.
But if what we remember we hold it in memory, yet, unless we did remember forgetfulness, we could never at the hearing of the name recognise the thing thereby signified, then forgetfulness is retained by memory. The Confessions
He signified his content with a nod.
And in the Roman Empire, purple togas signified elite status.
Flandry didn't know what the title signified -- and Merseian grades were subtle, variable things -- but it was plainly a high one, since the aristocratic-deferential form of address was used. A Circus of Hells
The object, on the other hand, is best thought of as whatever is signified, for example, the object to which the written or uttered word attaches, or the fire signified by the smoke. Peirce's Theory of Signs
Suddenly, the real core of what this gala event signified in musical terms came majestically across.
At the same time, symbolic associations with the moon-goddesses, Diana, Phoebe and Cynthia, signified both England's sea-power and the Queen's immutability and continuing potency, despite her advancing age.
Women in film, thus, do not function as signifiers for a signified (a real woman) as sociological critics have assumed, but signifier and signified have been elided into a sign that represents something in the male unconscious.
Yeat ware not their Letters facioned to ioyne together in sillables like ours, but Ziphres, and shapes of men and of beastes, of heades, and of armes, and artificers tooles, which signified in sondrie wise echone accordyng to his propertie. The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie
It will be the start of a new era resulting from and signified by the solar meridian crossing the galactic equator, and the earth aligning itself with the center of the galaxy.
The connection between signifier and signified is loosened and exposed as arbitrary, allowing for alternative interpretations of the sense.
The attributes of a king are a mark of the absence of the attribute signified by the word omnipotent (or, are evidence of the absence of that attribute). A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
But these were not the only changes that signified the end of boyhood. American Manhood: Transformations in Masculinity from the Revolution to the Modern Era
Over the north gate, appear two bulls, in alto-relievo, extremely well executed, emblems which, according to the custom of the Romans, signified that the amphitheatre was erected at the expence of the people. Travels through France and Italy
The alphabets that embellished schoolgirl samplers signified both a girl's literacy and her future role as keeper of household textiles, which before industrialization were far more valuable than furniture.
He had evidently sat still a good while for him, honest man; and he got up with this, and began to pace up and down, looking at the "hummocks," which signified greater meanings to him than to his wife. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life.
She seemed to have difficulty in remembering quite how it had got there and what it signified. COMPULSION
Noel Higgins on Tuam is in charge of the group but to date he has not signified his intention if he is taking part or not.
There was a time in my life when I still believed that a crunchy riff from an overdriven guitar amplifier signified something elemental and fierce.
Part of the attraction was the hope that a formal discipline which required one to name signifiers and signifieds would display convincingly the ideological contents of various activities.
Those whom you feared most are now bosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth
By "commonwealth" I must be understood all along to mean not a democracy, or any form of government, but any independent community which the Latins signified by the word civitas, to which the word which best answers in our language is "commonwealth," and most properly expresses such a society of men which "community" does not (for there may be subordinate communities in a government), and "city" much less. Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II
Tabernacle signified in the Middle Ages sometimes a ciborium-altar, a structure resting on pillars and covered with a baldachino that was set over an altar, sometimes an ostensory or monstrance, a tower-shaped vessel for preserving and exhibiting relics and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
Brick chimneys became a familiar feature, which signified the arrival of the kitchen and service quarters within the main house, into either a wing or a semi-basement.
Greek and Latin signified far more than our modern apostles of ‘relevance’ will allow.
The potentially fatal heart condition - signified by abnormalities and excessive thickening of the heart muscle - has left her suffering from angina, so she gets tired easily and has to pace herself.
Only sixteen guests were expected, and among them only two who signified. TEN STEPS TO HAPPINESS
Taureans, signified by the bull, were often described as obstinate and inflexible, while Pisceans could be risk-takers and daredevils.
Satire first signified a basket of first fruits offered to Ceres; then a hotchpot or olla podrida, then a medley; and so the name was given to poems written without any definite design. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
Aug.: Yet not without reason did the Lord say, "Seventy times seven;" for the Law is set forth in ten precepts; and the Law is signified by the number ten, sin by eleven, because it is passing the denary line. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
A further example is the critique by Baudrillard of utility as privileged signified, which was noted in chapter 3.

How To Use Signified In A Sentence

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