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動詞

consignify (third-person singular simple present consignifies, present participle consignifying, simple past and past participle consignified)

1. To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.
   • 1640, Thomas Hobbbes, The Elements of Law:

     spirits are angels, that is to say messengers: all which words do consignify locality; and locality is dimension; and whatsoever hath dimension, is body, be it never so subtile.

   • 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:

     The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures.

派生語

• consignification

参照

• “consignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.