significate (sign if ikat)

[= It. significato, "All tyrants are miserable," "no miser is rich," are universal propositions, and their subjects are, therefore, said to be being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its significates: but "some islands are fertile," "all tyrants are not a a inated," are particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their significates. Whately, Logic, II. ii. § 1. Formal significate. See formal . signification (sign i-fi-kā'shon), n. [ sig nificacion, significacioun , significacion , signification , F. signification = Pr. significatio = Sp. significacion = Pg. significação = It. sign if i cazione , L. significatio (n-), a signifying, indication, expre ion, sign, token, meaning, emphasis, sign if i care , pp. sign if i cat us , mean, signify: see signify .] 1. The act of signifying or making known; expre ion or indication of meaning in any manner. [Rare.] All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addre of one man to another. South. 2. A fact as signified; an established or intended meaning; the import of anything by which thought is or may be communicated; connotation, or logical comprehension; implication; sense: as, the signification of a word or a gesture; the significations of mathematical and other conventional signs. Words in their primary signification stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him that uses them. Locke, Human Understanding, III. ii. 2. 3t. Significance; occult meaning; a fact as inferable from a phenomenon of which it is said to be the signification. Neuertheles, the dragon had grete significacion in hymself, ffor it be-tokened the kynge Arthur and his power. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 393. 4. Importance; consequence; significant import. Hall i well. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] Therefore send after alle the gode men of the londe to se the bataile, for it hath grete significacion. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 38. 5. In French - Canadian law, the act of giving notice; notification.-Formal signification. See formal. Syn. 2. Meaning, etc. See significance. significative (sig-nif'i-ka-tiv), a. [ cant or significative. [Rare.] Imp. Dict. II. n.; pl. significatories (-riz). That which betokens, signifies, or represents. ing no sign or manifestation; quiet; pa ive. [Rare.] Poems Which moved me in secret, as the sap is moved In still March branches, signle as a stone. Mrs. Browning , Aurora Leigh, viii. 2. Having no algebraical sign, or being e en- tially positive, like the modulus of an imagi- nary, a tensor, etc. Matter or ma is signle . H. Farquhar , in Science, III. 700. Wharton. If it be for defect of apparance, take me out a special significavit . Middle ton, The Phœnix, ii. 3.