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a. Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [ R. ] Spelman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint signification. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Consignificant; jointly significate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the same signification. Cockerham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition or quality of being insignificant; lack of significance, sense, or meaning; as, the insignificance of words or phrases. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Lack of force or effect; unimportance; pettiness; inefficacy; as, the insignificance of human art. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Lack of claim to consideration or notice; lack of influence or standing; meanness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Reduce him, from being the first person in the nation, to a state of insignificance. Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Insignificance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not significant; void of signification, sense, or import; meaningless; as, insignificant words. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having no weight or effect; answering no purpose; unimportant; valueless; futile. [ 1913 Webster ]

Laws must be insignificant without the sanction of rewards and punishments. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Without weight of character or social standing; mean; contemptible; as, an insignificant person.

Syn. -- Unimportant; immaterial; inconsiderable; small; inferior; trivial; mean; contemptible. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose. “Anger insignificantly fierce.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. insignificativus. See In- not, and Significative. ] Not expressing meaning; not significant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ &unr_;. praesignificatio. See Presignify. ] The act of signifying or showing beforehand. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. significantia. ] 1. The quality or state of being significant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is signified; meaning; import; as, the significance of a nod, of a motion of the hand, or of a word or expression. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Importance; moment; weight; consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

With this brain I must work, in order to give significancy and value to the few facts which I possess. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. significans, -antis, p. pr. of significare. See Signify. ] 1. Fitted or designed to signify or make known something having a meaning; standing as a sign or token; expressive or suggestive; as, a significant word or sound; a significant look. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was well said of Plotinus, that the stars were significant, but not efficient. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deserving to be considered; important; momentous; as, a significant event. [ 1913 Webster ]

Significant figures (Arith.), the figures which remain to any number, or decimal fraction, after the ciphers at the right or left are canceled. Thus, the significant figures of 25, 000, or of .0025, are 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which has significance; a sign; a token; a symbol. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

In dumb significants proclaim your thoughts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a significant manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. significatus, p. p. of significare. See Signify. ] (Logic) One of several things signified by a common term. Whately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. signification, L. significatio. ] 1. The act of signifying; a making known by signs or other means. [ 1913 Webster ]

A signification of being pleased. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

All speaking or signification of one's mind implies an act or addres of one man to another. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is signified or made known; that meaning which a sign, character, or token is intended to convey; as, the signification of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. significativus: cf. F. significatif. ] 1. Betokening or representing by an external sign. [ 1913 Webster ]

The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative. Brerewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having signification or meaning; expressive of a meaning or purpose; significant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Sig*nif"i*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- Sig*nif"i*ca*tive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. significateur. ] One who, or that which, signifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this diagram there was one significator which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. significatorius. ] Significant. -- n. That which is significatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., (he) has signified, perf. ind. of significare to signify. ] (Eng. Eccl. Law) Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself to the authority of the church. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]