How To Use Signify In A Sentence

In what follows I shall claim that postmodern cultural forms do indeed signify, only that they signify differently.
When terms which signify mixed perfections are predicated of God, the analogy becomes so faint that the locution is a mere metaphor. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
Nobody really knows what the marks on the ancient stones signify.
Perhaps we are to view the epagomenal days as signifying Red Ice Creations
These days the term bruschetta has come to signify garlic toast topped with diced tomatoes. Undefined

The term garland was also technically used to signify a crown of precious metal, often adorned with gems, made for the arrangement of natural or artificial flowers before the altar or sacred image at festival times. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
In Roman times, men standing for public office would wear white togas to signify their purity.
There is another couple walking down the street, this one pre-consumerist, their handclasp signifying a ‘right of ownership’ in which she is ‘silently, sadly, complicit.’
One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
What does the byline on a newspaper story signify?
The young newsboy has purchased a bunch of violets, signifying fidelity, and has placed them on the newspaper billboard.
He was dressed in magnificent robes, the edges of which were marked with various symbols and designs, all signifying royalty.
Milton's admirable economy in working this truth into his great poem (i. 378) affords a sublime exposition of the mind of the Fathers on the origin of mythologies.] [1774] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
When the Ecstasy-exposed pups were placed in a new environment away from their littermates, they spent significantly more time exploring, signifying they did not adjust as easily to the new environment as the control animals.
I scraped the stone against the blade harder, hoping to drown out her voice and signify that I didn't want to talk.
The prevalence of infi - delity, immorality and vice as surely indicates ap - proaching calamities, as clouds indicate a shower, winds forebode a storm, or the conjunction, or op - position of the sun and moon, in certain places in the heavens, presignifying an eclipse. Sermons delivered on various occasions : first published singly, now republished and collected into a volume, with two new one, never before printed
Rudy Cardenas's brother kissed the stairs of the courthouse, I think signifying that justice had been served.
[Footnote 418: Syn. that which belongeth to us (_ciò che ci è_,) _ci_, as I have before noted, signifying both "here" and "us," dative and accusative.] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
The emergence of transnational money may signify a major turning point in political history and political theory. MANAGING IN TURBULENT TIMES
Falling at the feet of Jesus in front of a crowd is a telling gesture signifying social inferiority.
The church bell used to be rung to signify disaster.
However the eagle is always looking to the right signifying that the Mullen, Richard D. "Moon"
The Lacanian opus is built upon the power of the signifier, the capacity of the noun, not just to represent, but also to signify various representations that can be in relation with one another, e.g. through metaphors and metonyms.
Whenever the fingers and hands are used at all, it would seem natural to expect for 5 some general expression signifying _hand_, for 10 _both hands_, and for 20 The Number Concept Its Origin and Development
And as for those Greek words anastenai and egei'rein, they endeavour to shew, by other like places of scripture, that they signify no more than the bare suscitation, raising, or giving being to a thing, without its having fallen or perished before. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
The gospel is incensed to signify the sweet odour which it communicates to our souls; and the ministers of God, to signify, according to St. Thomas, that God maketh manifest _the odour_ of his knowledge by us in every place: "For we are unto God _the good odour_ of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish". The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
But if the Yankees haven't won a World Series since 2000, why should their defeat this year signify anything?
A life of insignificance, is a life that does not signify anything," Mr. Marshall added. Daisy in the Field
The martlet signifies nobility acquired through bravery, prowess or intelligence. On English arms it was a mark of cadency signifying the fourth son, for whom there was little doubt that there would be no land left for him to inherit.
This is no sense at all of the faithfulness of God, neither is the word ever used in Scripture to signify any such thing in God or man, nor can it with any tolerable sense be applied to any such thing; neither would there be any analogy between that which in God we call faithfulness and that virtue in man which is so termed. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
When he made use of such a phrase as that quoted above, it was to be presumed that he in some sort meant what he said; and so he did, and had intended to signify that Crosbie by his conduct had merited all such condemnation as was the fitting punishment for blackguardism of the worst description. The Small House at Allington
But why to dream of lettuce should presage some ensuing disease, why to eat figs should signify foolish talk, why to eat eggs great trouble, and to dream of blindness should be so highly commended, according to the oneirocritical verses of Astrampsychus and Nicephorus, I shall leave unto your divination. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
The hand of the soldier and the two hands of the servant signify the three-fold accusation and denial; the infolded hands of Peter tellingly express both denial and repentance.
Taking the word ‘bottle’ as an example, the double t's are not pronounced but replaced with a glottic sound, which interestingly does not have a letter of the alphabet to signify its existence.
He had amended and improved the new Graham clock, called the 'dead scapement,' or 'dead-beat escapement' (the origin of our modern word _dead-beat_, signifying a man who does not meet his engagements, whereas the original Tales of the Chesapeake
The symbol of a beast considered merely _as a beast_, could not, in the nature of the case, signify anything more than a temporal kingdom or political empire. The Last Reformation
The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White The Love-Master
Meursius is of opinion, that the Greeks borrowed their notion of these divinities from the Phœnicians, for _nympha_, in their language, signifying _soul_, the Greeks imagined that the souls of the ancient inhabitants of Greece had become Nymphs; particularly that the souls of those who had inhabited the woods were called Dryads; those who inhabited the mountains, Oreădes; those who dwelt on the sea-coasts, Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)
We declare our own property inherently allodial and unowed, and hereby signify that its confiscation by any government is unwilling.
The jury signify their verdict by a show of hands.
Only then will they be awarded the coveted Green Beret and Special Forces tab, signifying that they are fully prepared to join the brotherhood of Special Forces warriors.
vex," therefore, is the heightening of grieving by a provocation unto anger and indignation: which sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the word signify no more but to "grieve;" and so it is rendered by lupeo, Gen. xlv. Pneumatologia
It was thirty pages long, column after column of kanji characters arranged vertically on the pages, with never a strikeover or erasure, now and then a crude stick-figure drawing with arrows or dotted lines signifying this or that mysterious pathology. A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set
And beauty, as a term signifying (like health) an indisputable excellence, has been a perennial resource in the issuing of peremptory evaluations.
Perhaps a fermata on your chest to signify "Hold me! Ink-Stained Wretch
All of these writers would benefit from rethinking their definitions of a musician; in these books the term is generally limited to signifying singers, songwriters, and bandleaders.
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an archangelic grandeur; so do their diligent tracings-out not belie the obvious deduction. Moby Dick; or the Whale
We are associates in business; business of a most important -- But what does that term signify to you, my precious ladybird? The Net
But for the labours of a statesman all the sound and fury of the swordsman on the field of battle would in the end signify nothing.
Their faces of men and hair like women doubtless signify their boldness on the one hand and their effeminateness on the other. The Revelation Explained
She takes my incomprehension to signify that we'll never really understand each other and are thus, not each other's Ones.
It is also one of the reasons why these signs may be taken to signify uncultivated territory and places where wild animals roam.
This was so from the very beginning, for the supposed peculiarities of his birth and the hunchback, for which he is renowned, were but inventions to signify evil.
_trouse_, is of every-day use in this county of Hereford for trimmings of hedges; that it is given by Grose as a verb in use in Warwickshire for trimming off the superfluous branches; and lastly, that it is employed as a substantive to signify shreddings by Philemon Holland, who, if I rightly remember, was many years head master of Coventry Grammar School: Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
The words _nahal_ and _nahala_, inherit and inheritance, by no means necessarily signify _articles of property_. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
It seems that the responses do not necessarily signify the intention either to remain in or to move to another province, but they do give an indication of public perceptions and sentiment about other parts of South Africa.
KABUL -- The arrival of Sen. John F. Kerry has come to signify a crisis in Kabul. In Afghanistan, Kerry says Karzai must lead 'tangible' effort against corruption
For many people, the word humility has come to signify humiliation or self-derogation. John Backman: Can Humility Change The World?
Pearls signify both tears and teeth; the latter are sometimes called hailstones, from their whiteness and moisture; the lips are cornelians or rubies; the gums, a pomegranate flower; the dark foliage of the myrtle is synonymous with the black hair of the beloved, or with the first down on the cheeks of puberty. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Why is the term ‘bridge’ used to signify the place from where a ship is conned?
It had the Red Tractor symbol signifying it was produced to farm assured standards in the UK.
The Revolution redefined the cultural values signifying social prestige, and overturned the juridical system that had upheld status distinctions in the old regime.
Removing these monuments would signify is a clear aggression against Russian sentiment. Estonian Symbolism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Obviously, organic does signify better, or at the least an improvement, but the buyer must beware.
Some tribes use special facial markings to signify status.
In addition to signifying sagehood and wilderness travel, the staff also carries meaning as a potent tool in Daoist lore, where it plays various roles to assist the adept's escape from the earthly world.
One of the Vernacular translations takes valena as signifying child and para-sraddha as meaning the first or adya sraddha. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
We know by now that these fateful peculiarities, right after the credits, need not necessarily signify.
The verb ` athar means "to pray," the Arabic parallel signifying another form of devout exercise, "to sacrifice. Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1
The immense monoliths centered at the focal point of the photographs signify power and dominance.
On this account it was given the name argon, signifying lazy or idle. An Elementary Study of Chemistry
To what tune pleas'd his ear] _Key_ in this place seems to signify the key of a musical instrument, by which he set _Hearts to tune_. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
Canonical Books, it was but an easy step to make the term signify the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
The lock, signifying a small quantity, and the gowpen, a handful, were additional perquisites demanded by the miller, and submitted to or resisted by the The Monastery
Did non-involvement signify successful resistance or were villages simply waiting for a more propitious time to become engaged?
Yet, the possibility always remains that the signifying capabilities of the tongue, and, more generally, the body will exceed the narrow scope of its assignment, becoming rude, unmannerly, undisciplined, and uncivilized.
Like words, they signify things beyond themselves by means of linguistic devices such as metaphor and metonymy.
The Panama hat came to signify secular Turkish citizenship and functions as a metonym for the transformation of the Oriental Ottoman to the Western Turk.
The stone-built wall at the rooftop patio has the shape of five rays signifying the five elements.
From the same sp and the termination ark, comes spark, signifying a single emission of fire with a noise; namely sp, the emission, ar, the more acute noise, and k, the mute consonant, intimates its being suddenly terminated; but adding l, is made the frequentative sparkle. A Grammar of the English Tongue
For there is no vulgarity in a title strongly signifying the intent. One of Our Conquerors — Complete
So rapid is this movement that "quick as a wink" is a common phrase to signify speed, and the German word for "an instant" is ein Augenblick ( "an eyewink"). The Human Brain
Their power lies in signifying recognition of the other person's problem or differing viewpoint.
Fivona; a name, from its length, deemed highly genteel; though scandal averred, that it was nothing more than her real name transposed; the appellation by which she had been formerly known, signifying a Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
Carefully check, too, for any rashes or flaky skin on the scalp - which could signify anything from scalp ringworm to dermatitis.
Other inscribed symbols on the slates are a star-like design that she believes means unity and a flower image that may signify two men loving the same woman.
On other occasions, a name change is intended to signify a shift in direction of a business.
Feminist critic Elaine Showalter has gone so far as to claim hysteria as a root or first step of feminism--a kind of protolanguage of revolt communicating through the body messages that can't be verbalized, especially in a period of time when women or that matter men had no framework for signifying their often largely psycho-sexual repressions. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
The wavy bendlet denotes overseas duty and the two divisions of the shield are used to signify World Wars I and II.
Desert_, p. 550.] [Footnote 272: Disciples of Seedy ben Isa, whose sanctuary is at Fas, and who possess the art of fascinating serpents.] [Footnote 273: N.B. This is a misinterpretation of the Arabic words here used, which, literally translated, signify, _God alone, is great! An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa
Propitiatory, expiatory, remissory, or satisfactory, for they signify all one thing in effect, and is nothing else but a thing whereby to obtain remission of sins, and to have salvation. Sermons on the Card
The revolutionist is a person doomed obrechennyi, in older usage signifying also “consecrated”. Estrich on political inexperience
Dialect, accent, lexical choice and grammatical structures are all interpreted by speakers and addressees as signifying status.
Acharya Vinoba Bhave, a keen Gandhian and social reformer, convinced the dacoits terrorising the Chambal ravines to give up arms in 1960, signifying the victory of non-violence.
The seventh, to names that signify nothing, but are taken up and learned by rote from the Schools, as hypostatical, transubstantiate, consubstantiate, eternal-now, and the like canting of Schoolmen. Leviathan
Rocks adjacent to ironstones are strongly sheared, with the intensity of foliation and lineation decreasing away from ironstone horizon, signifying a pronounced strain gradient.
Don't worry about being late - it doesn't signify.
Anyway at the end of a long day at the chalkface, I'm more inclined towards the poor player full of sound and fury and signifying nothing.
Well, according to Wikipedia, the word guru is composed of the two syllables "gu", signifying darkness, and "ru", signifying "the destroyer of that darkness". Verena von Pfetten: Step XI Of My Spiritual Journey: In Which I Seek A Guru
I feared he was about to speak again and I raised my hand to signify forbiddal -- but he saw it not, and my inward protest yielded to his fiery purpose. St. Cuthbert's
In it, in fact, Beethoven may be said to have broken away from form, for after the word sonata he adds the qualifying phrase "quasi una fantasia," signifying that, although he calls the work a sonata, it has the characteristics of a free fantasy. The Pianolist A Guide for Pianola Players
Kalif ran his hand over his left shoulder blade, feeling the brand that had been burned into his skin, signifying Dylor's ownership of him.
She is the epitome of what sexual passion is supposed to signify.
In scholion 9 we read that on a certain occasion St. Patrick said, 'Dar mo dhe broth,' which is explained, 'God is able to do this if He choose'; and yet immediately after it is added that 'Dar mo dhe broth' was a sort of asseveration familiar to St. Patrick, signifying 'By my God, Judge, or judgment.' Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town
The existence of a clerisy would seem to signify a meritocratic rather than an egalitarian society.
[349] Abode is an old English word signifying omen or prognostic, -- from "bode," to portend. The Sermons of John Owen
On one side of the tablet are many individual entries of numbers accompanied by pictorial symbols, probably signifying the objects being counted or the names of persons.
The word mons which literally means an accumulation of wealth or money, now called capital, seems to have been a generic term used in the fifteenth century to signify lending-houses in general; and hence the montes pietatis or monti di pietà were a species of charitable lending-establishments not, perhaps, unlike our modern pawnbrokers 'establishments, but possessing, of course, none of the sinister features of the latter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
[5] The term piano trio is used to signify a piece for piano, violin, and 'cello, in full sonata form. Woman's Work in Music
Meronyms - words that name a part of what your keyword or keyphrases signify (e.g. ‘brim’ and ‘crown’ are meronyms of ‘hat’)
The green-flowered dress and the garland signify the gayness of the fields.
The name of this bay has a less unpleasant meaning in the Indian, than in the French language, signifying also _salt bay_, which induced Father Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
The ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol carried around by the Egyptian gods, normally signifying the ability to give or take life.
In no single one of them does the expression signify the community or the congregation taken in a distinctly democratic sense, by which emphasis would be laid on the self-government of the faithful. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Together these symbols signify that she is standing on a clefted place called the Yax Hal Witznal in ancient Mayan, meaning the "First True Mountain Place," the first piece of terra firma to appear after Creation. Bearers of War and Creation
To the medical mind these ecstasies signify nothing but suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria. The Varieties of Religious Experience
duodecimo," &c. These names signify the number of folds, and consequently the number of leaves the paper has been folded into. Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
Any persons whom it could please have no better notion of what the words referred to signify than of the meaning of _apsides_ and The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
The handshake was a symbolic gesture signifying that intention.
Late for the boat, the air force had flown him to Lyneham in a York, his aerogram from Singapore signifying that he was on his way. THE OPEN DOOR
Or, they rent their clothes, as if he had spoken blasphemy; and threw dust into the air, in detestation of it; or signifying how ready they were to throw stones at Paul, if the chief captain would have permitted them. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Fire belched from dragon maws; huge clubs thudded to the earth with monstrous regularity, each blow signifying another walker crushed. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
He or she may be fascinating, brilliant, eccentric, chaotic, unstable, a wild child, or a genius, but is always unconventional or original, signifying many Aquarian characteristics.
The modern wedding breakfast, with its bridecake, is a survival from a very ancient mode of solemnizing the closest tie of all; and when Proserpine tasted a pomegranate she partook of a fruit of a specially symbolic character to signify acceptance of her new destiny as her captor's wife. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology
Then, my dear, the man seems already to be meditating vengeance against me for an aversion I cannot help: for yesterday my saucy gaoleress assured me, that all my oppositions would not signify that pinch of snuff, holding out her genteel finger and thumb: that Clarissa Harlowe
Not only does the term signify full recognition of nursing's human foundation and meaning but it also points the direction for nursing's necessary development. Humanistic Nursing
Above this plaintive query is a man's head rendered as a particolored collage of different skin tones, meant, one assumes, to signify diversity.
In England they are called briar-root pipes, briar being a corruption of the French word _bruyère_, signifying heath. The South of France—East Half
They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution. Robert Morris
The term testament is derived from two words which mean a signifying of intention. The Institutes of Justinian
His stubbornness was taken by the augurs to signify the eternal nature of the boundaries of the Roman state.
The prevalence of the piccolo sonority, acciaccaturas, repeated accompanimental quavers, simple tonic-dominant bassline and the use of percussion all signify alla turca.
[1775] The word daimon means in Greek a god, but the Christians used the word to signify an evil spirit. ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
Since the most familiar part of the _prima facie_ reality, the part almost exclusively noticed by the naive mind, is embraced within the field of the physical sciences, the term cosmology has come more definitely to signify the _philosophy of nature_. The Approach to Philosophy
The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
The Churches did not signify the hierarchy through money; there was no difference in salary between a sacristan and a pastor.
They just signify a difference of opinion. POSITIVE THINKING: Everything you have always known about positive thinking but were afraid to put into practice
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
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
The names _Convallaria polygonatum_ signify "growth in a valley," and "many jointed. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
Birds, especially field fares, eat the berries with avidity; and a botanical designation of the tree is _aucuparia_, as signifying fruit used by the _auceps_, or bird catcher, with which to bait his snares. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
He's probably the only recorder virtuoso to use vibrato to signify irony.
As it unfolds, Schroeder always makes it a focus of the shot, to signify that once again the umbilical between reality and fantasy has been re-opened (and the electrified emotions emanating from both are starting to flow).
The insignia depicted the head of an Indian scout wearing a helmet peering through a cloud, signifying the squadron's role as an aerial scout for the Army.
Directly in front of Julius were the uniform and the weapons of the deceased General Brice, symbolically placed to signify the end of the war.
Beginning Feb. 3 is The Year of the Rabbit signifying luck, tactfulness and thoughtfulness--for the Chinese New Year--and there are a lot of yummy goings-on that may or may not have to do with the special occasion. Audarshia Townsend: Hop Along to These Haute Cuisine Spots
Salammbô is as inarticulate for us as the serpent, to whose drowsy beauty, capable of such sudden awakenings, hers seems half akin; they move before us in a kind of hieratic pantomime, a coloured, expressive thing, signifying nothing. Figures of Several Centuries
The name "scherzo" in this connection is to be taken as signifying a play of fancy, rather than an especially playful mood in the sense of mirthfulness; in fact, it is not easy to find a rational explanation of the grounds upon which Chopin named his pieces, especially as between the ballad and the scherzo. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
We welcome expansion of telephone services as improving the general well-being but accept curtailment of postal services as signifying necessary economy.
Macramé is an Arabic word, signifying an ornamental fringe or trimming, which has been adopted as the term for a certain kind of hand-work, known also as «knotted fringe» or «Mexican lace» and produced by the knotting, interweaving and tying together of threads. Encyclopedia of Needlework
The fact that Evelyn is female doesn't, to me, signify anything more to me than what her gender is.
But the bust format ensures a rudimentary form without gestural and signifying elements or excrescences.
Thus, the taking from another what is his, without his knowledge or allowance, is properly called stealing: but that name, being commonly understood to signify also the moral pravity of the action, and to denote its contrariety to the law, men are apt to condemn whatever they hear called stealing, as an ill action, disagreeing with the rule of right. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
-- for some suppose the sprig of eryngo to signify that he was already betrothed to her. Albert Durer
The act of signifying is signification, a term that is often used synonymously with ‘meaning’ and ‘sense’, and occurs in the discussions of students of semantics and semiotics.
The team dispersed in ignominious defeat, and it was not until after dark that the dogs came sneaking back, one by one, by meekness and humility signifying their fealty to White Fang. The Love-Master
The tube of filings through which the electric current is made to pass in wireless telegraphy is called a coherer signifying that the filings cohere or cling together under the influence of the electric waves. Marvels of Modern Science
It need not frighten you; it is a nothing of a part, a mere nothing, not above half a dozen speeches altogether, and it will not much signify if nobody hears a word you say, so you may be as creepmouse as you like, but we must have you to look at. Mansfield Park
I tend to think of this recession more as a bidet, whereby a a refreshing skoot of cold water up the bahookie rids us of the dangleberries of Labours toxic debt, followed by warm swirling suds round the balls, signifying a relaxed approach to an independent comfortable within its own means Scotland. Business and Baths
The word 'orgasm' comes from the Greek word orgasmos, signifying a certain 'swelling', which not only gives us an idea of what's happening to the body, but a clue as to how people feel about them. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Peruvian word anta, signifying copper or metal in general. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
An offer constitutes a definite proposition by the offeror signifying his willingness to be bound by the terms stated therein as soon as it has been accepted by the offeree.
Others think his image is more autumnal than vernal, signifying the sin of lustfulness and death—the devil. Bel's Fire and Little Green Men
It should be understood that the term alimentary anaphylaxis does not signify anaphylaxis by alimentary substances but anaphylaxis by the introduction of the anaphylactizing substance by way of the digestive channels. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
Only this I would recommend to you, that before interest had guided men in what they had to do, all the translations that were extant in English did read this text, "And ordained them elders by election," as the word doth signify: so you will find it in your old translations. The Sermons of John Owen
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:
There's a tale in which those who choose to go about armed wear a brassard signifying the fact, and legal gunfights may break out at any time over matters large or trivial.
Another attraction is a huge bell inscribed with the images of the Buddha, initially designed to ring every 7 minutes, 108 times a day, meant to signify the release of 108 kinds of human vexes. Giant Statue | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
`Dr. McClure, what does 0.5 milligrams of methaqualone signify? THE WIDOW'S TRIAL
This single line from the 1967 film The Graduate came to signify a generation's contempt for insincerity, conformity, and wastefulness.
It was, to my slippery and wayward mind, one of the wonkiest, wobbliest, most sputteringly interesting years in ages, full of sound and fury and shrill, insufferable conservatism signifying nothing, but in a way that makes it seem like, you know, everything. Mark Morford: The Great Impending OMG of 2011
The next section of this paper will present a short history of acoustical building design as an evolving signifying system.
Additional distinct extrema in the negative regime of energy signify vicinal pairs that are hydrogen bonded.
The _lock_, signifying a small quantity, and the _gowpen_, a handful, were additional perquisites demanded by the miller, and submitted to or resisted by the _Suckener_ as circumstances permitted. The Monastery
The word pilgrim means a wanderer, but it has come in course of time to signify any traveller who comes from a distance to some such place. Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit
Why is the term ‘bridge’ used to signify the place from where a ship is conned?
Sansovino, and some of his employers as well, would surely have known that herms could signify the immutability of the boundaries of Rome.
Does the same signifying phenomenon convey more when an artist visualizes a self-portrait?
Pain below the navel that spreads to either side may signify a colon disorder.
We wanted to get away from the image of just being emcees, so we came up with the name ‘Silent Lambs Project’ to signify that this is the silent messenger's work at hand.
Beware of the bark of a dog or crow of a cock at night, for they signify death.
And yet what did that signify, when there was the white globe shining, and here was the dead white bird in his hand? The Princess and the Curdie
Bobby Jones and Alister MacKenzie designed Augusta National Golf Club as what they called an "inland links," signifying they wanted it to play as much as possible like the Old Course in St. Andrews. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
Their phenomenal success can be attributed in large part to their very lack of definition and to their indetermination within our most widely recognized signifying systems.
countryman, rustic, clown, paysan, villager," still signify a rude and untaught person, as opposed to the words "townsman" and "citizen". Selections From the Works of John Ruskin
If the idea occurs at all (with multitudes it never does) of claims which they have heard that God should make on the hours, it is dismissed with the thought that it really cannot signify to him how creatures, condemned by his appointment to toil all the rest of the week, may wish to spend this one day, on which the secular taskmaster manumits them, and He, the spiritual one, might surely do as much. An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance
When the term divine Principle is used to signify Deity it may seem distant or cold, until better apprehended. No and Yes
Nuns celebrated their solemn vows with a marriage ceremony and a ring signifying their wedding to Christ.
Lauterbur submitted a paper to the journal Nature outlining his discovery – which he gave the rather grand name of zeumatography, from the Greek word zeugma, or yoke, to signify the fact that the technique links chemical and spatial information. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2003 - Perspectives
I don't need a ring, but there should be something to signify the moment. Times, Sunday Times
How was Pericles surprised when she said her name was Marina, for he knew it was no usual name, but had been invented by himself for his own child to signify seaborn: 'O, I am mocked,' said he, 'and you are sent hither by some incensed god to make the world laugh at me.' Tales from Shakespeare
The story is mined for symbolic aspects which signify power and powerlessness.
Personally, I want to say he was a ‘gentleman,’ to signify some old fashioned manner he had, a courtesy and delicacy and diplomacy.
The opposing sides in this duologue are represented by two female soprano voices portraying Beauty and Pleasure, and by two male altos, probably super - rather than sub-human castrati, who signify Time and Disillusion.
Gob is variously explained as a derivative from the Chinese (?) word gobshite, and as the old word gob, signifying a large, irregular mass, applied to a new use. Chapter 11. American Slang. 2. War Slang
It has been a term hitherto used to signify that which pleases us we know not why, and in our approbation of which we can justify ourselves only by the concurrence of numbers, without much power of en - forcing our opinion upon others by any argument but example and authority. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
What I behold, is present; what I foresignify, to come; not the sun, which already is; but the sun-rising, which is not yet. The Confessions
Apocrypha is a Greek word, signifying "secret" or "hidden," but in the sixteenth century it came to be applied to a list of books contained in the Septuagint, or Greek translation of the Old Testament, but not in the Palestinian, or Hebrew The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
Because even within Reform, Reconstructionist and Conservative Judaism women have generally enjoyed ritual equality for less than a generation, some adult women in the past fifteen years have also turned to the bat mitzvah ceremony as a way to expand their Jewish knowledge and skills and to signify their assumption of the rights and responsibilities of Jewish adulthood. Bat Mitzvah: American Jewish Women.
It might seem surprising to some that a singer/actor born and bred in Tacoma, Washington, might function symbolically to signify the South.

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