Signification

- The patrons of the Egyptian origin of the sacred name appeal to the common Egyptian formula, Nuk pu nuk but though its literal signification is “I am I”, its real meaning is “It is I who” … ❋ Unknown (2009)

The differential system that rules out voice from the byplay of linguistic signification is therefore an oscillatory mechanism through which voice itself may seem to stage its phantom evanescent renewal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

As words convert to waves, their very signification is what gets left behind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This double signification is possible because of Las Casas's contested status in Britain as an icon for abolitionists. ❋ Unknown (2006)

More often, though, we participate in signification less self-consciously, more by elective affiliation, with much less formal expectations and obligations; in so doing, we float along with the significations made available by mass culture and socially-dominant institutions. ❋ Unknown (2005)

For Blake the unit of signification can be anything along a sliding analogical scale of the particulars of textual production: from the whole of a published, finished copy down to the smallest drops of ink and finest of etched marks, Blake's vision of signification is like a great chain of reading with every link forged as it is perceived by the reader. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The minute end of the scale of signification is limited only by the limits of his perception, the minutest of graphic particulars that his graver could carve or his pen could write. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Beza himself confesseth, that beyond Jordan, is the proper signification of the Greek word beyond, Matthew 4: 15. ❋ 1602-1675 (1979)

Pillar, Plain Of The or rather "oak of the pillar" (that being the real signification of the Hebrew word elon), a tree which stood near Shechem and at which the men of Shechem and the house of Millo assembled to crown Abimelech the son of Gideon. ❋ Unknown (1884)

James Francis Edward, who called himself James the Third, and whom his opponents called the Pretender, by a translation which gave an injurious signification to the French word "pretendant." ❋ Justin McCarthy (1871)

The words may also allude to the manner wherein the reprobates shall appear at the last day, having their right hands tied up to their necks; 7 which is the proper signification of the Arabic word. ❋ George Sale (1716)

And the vulgar names, both in Italian, Frenche and Spanish, depend (in namyng it,) vpon the signification of the Latin word, _Res_: ❋ John Dee (1567)

As in so many cases the political signification is much more equivocal than in Manlius’s strict ideological reading (and is complicated further by the biographical facts of Wolcot’s relationship with ❋ Unknown (2006)

Reading Hobbes's various accounts of language, it quickly becomes clear that the notion of signification is central. ❋ Duncan, Stewart (2009)

Now, since sounds have no natural connexion with our ideas, but have all their signification from the arbitrary imposition of men, the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification, which is the imperfection we here are speaking of, has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than in another to signify any idea: for in that regard they are all equally perfect. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The imperfection of words is the doubtfulness or ambiguity of their signification, which is caused by the sort of ideas they stand for. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So for him, a spoken or written term has simple supposition when it stands for the mental act to which it is subordinated by the conventions of signification, that is, the mental act abstracted from those things which the word conventionally signifies. ❋ Read, Stephen (2006)

This "Obscurity and Disorder" of words, Locke elsewhere describes as "the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their [words '] signification, which is the imperfection we are here speaking of" (III. ix.4, p. 477). ❋ Unknown (2001)

But this does not seem to be true; because we must use words according to the purpose of their signification, which is in relation to our surroundings. ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

Whether it be a veritable snake in a box, a serpent connected with the figure of a woman, or as a carved representation on monuments or stones, or as chains or wreaths on columns, bas-reliefs or friezes, the signification is the same. ❋ Unknown (1897)