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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

consignify en · VERB

Etymology

From con- + signify.

Meanings

  1. To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.
    • The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:
    • spirits are angels, that is to say messengers: all which words do consignify locality; and locality is dimension; and whatsoever hath dimension, is body, be it never so subtile. 1640, Thomas Hobbbes, The Elements of Law:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
consignified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
consignified Tense=Past lexicographic
consignifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
consignifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

consignification