Signified

Initially, the label signified that 100% of the wood used in a product was harvested by sustainable methods. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I had been taught that “itis” at the end of a word signified some kind of inflammation and I was exposed to the insight that “gastr” was supposed to make you think about stomachs; so I creatively surmised correctly that the word “gastritis” might well relate to inflammation of the stomach. ❋ M.D. Mel Levine (2002)

Let animal be the term signified by A, mortal by B, and immortal by C, and let man, whose definition is to be got, be signified by D. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

Bush called himself the “asterisk candidate,” referring to the fact that an asterisk following his name signified that poll takers found no support at all for him. ❋ ROBERT D. NOVAK (2000)

Flandry didn't know what the title signified -- and Merseian grades were subtle, variable things -- but it was plainly a high one, since the aristocratic-deferential form of address was used. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1969)

In his book The Peace Process, William Quant traces American-led negotiations from the mid-1970s when the term signified a "gradual, step-by-step approach to resolving one of the world's most difficult conflicts." ❋ Stephen Lendman (2010)

In his book "The Peace Process," William Quant traces American-led negotiations from the mid-1970s when the term signified a "gradual, step-by-step approach to resolving one of the world's most difficult conflicts." ❋ PoliticalTheatrics (2010)

This shifting relationship between the word and the idea, between the signifier and the signified is the reason for the "doubtfulness and uncertainty of their [words '] signification" (III. ix.4, p. 479), and Locke is explicit as to what he thinks of those who exploit this shifting relationship: "'tis plain cheat and abuse, when I make them [words] stand sometimes for one thing and sometimes for another" (III. x.5, p. 492). ❋ Unknown (2001)

The cacophony would be excusable if the barbarous term signified nothing but the creature signified; but as a rule this name possesses, hidden in its Greek or other roots, a certain meaning in which the novice hopes to find instruction. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

And should I eventually find the elusive Condors in some other TV show, I could say that, like the Titans, the new name signified the Hawks' new home and new identity. ❋ Toby O'B (2009)

The name signified their conviction that the congress should censure Clinton for his escapade and "move on" past the absurdities of the President's sex life to address real issues. ❋ Unknown (2008)

This was certainly not brought about by his knowledge of books, but of men: dancing, fencing, and riding, with a little military architecture, were no doubt the top of his education; and if he knew that collegium in Latin signified college in French, it must have been by accident. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He was in hopes that my name signified a lifestyle and not just a name. ❋ Wilberteets (2004)

The SA Comunist Party chairman attended the re-naming ceremony and told some 500 parents, pupils and teachers the new name signified the struggle to end a system in "which we no longer have a privileged few while the great majority are hungry, homeless, and cannot read or write". ❋ Unknown (1992)

This meant either that their owners represented luxury trades, where a name signified the profession or service, or that they were covers -- perhaps both. Wass 'world fringed many different circles, intermingled with some quite surprising professions dedicated to the comfort, pleasure or health of the idle rich, off-world nobility, and the criminal elite. ❋ Andre Norton (1958)

One of the principal rules of this kind of divination among the Pythagoreans was, that an even number of vowels in a name signified an imperfection in the left side of a man, and an odd number in the right side. ❋ James Grant (N/A)