Now there are two significations of the Hebrew word which suit the present place; either that the spirit moved and agitated itself over the waters, for the sake of putting forth vigor; or that He brooded over them to cherish them. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)
_Mushtarik_, or words which have several significations, as the Arabic word "'ain," which may mean an eye, a fountain, or the sun. ❋ Edward Sell (N/A)
It is more likely that it represents a little circular hillock, seen from above, or something of that nature surrounded by a ring, as the significations given the Maya word _mul_ are "hillock, heap, mound, mountain, ants 'nest, etc." ❋ Cyrus Thomas (1867)
But for metaphoricall significations, there be many: for sometimes it is taken for Disposition or Inclination of the mind; as when for the disposition to controwl the sayings of other men, we say, ❋ Thomas Hobbes (1633)
For Kant, the logical expressions do not express meanings in the way that non-logical expressions express meanings or concepts (see Critique of Pure Reason, B 186; several of the Kantian categories correspond approximately to the "significations" of some paradigmatic logical expressions). ❋ Gómez-Torrente, Mario (2006)
En jouant avec le matériel visuel et les "significations" possible/impossible, la composition multi-couches est composée d'éléments d'absurdité extrême que j'extrais de l'environnement visuel. ❋ Unknown (2009)
'significations' of the signals bear unmistakable marks of his involved and cumbrous style, and the code itself closely resembles that he used during the Great War. ❋ Unknown (1888)
"significations" was not a Contract, but a Convention or Pact. ❋ Henry Sumner Maine (1855)
This would restrict a general term, applicable to many objects, to one of its significations. ❋ Unknown (2010)
These are women who questioned not just male domination and the identification of men with the significations of the masculine, but the bonds that were for millennia conceived and legislated as essential to the identification of women with the feminine, the significations that coalesced into what now can be seen as barriers of gender identification not biologically imperative, but as arbitrarily keeping women from joining with men in all forms of socialization. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
It is in this sense that Silas's photographs of dead birds hold out significations of the hope and healing we all require to carry on. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
Yet when studying the art of historic and far cultures, we lack an eye for the encrypted codes and veiled histories investing significations and forms. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
That is until the early 1970s, when a significant few women artists and writers began to expand beyond the constraining significations and codes of feminism, femininity, and female homosocieties to exhume, examine, analyze, question, reshape, switch, and conflate the notions and qualities of gender difference taken for granted by world civilizations. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
And with such an expansive capcity, it became impossible to keep feminists from leveling and crossing the homosocial divide once women understood the codes and significations of feminism would themselves become constraining. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)
