adsignify

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin adsignificare (to show).

Verb[edit]

adsignify (third-person singular simple present adsignifies, present participle adsignifying, simple past and past participle adsignified)

  1. (transitive) To denote additionally.
    • 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta:
      And if it were so , then indeed the word we are now considering , besides the signification of the Verb , must likewise adsignify some Manner and the Present Time

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “adsignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)