consignify, v. rare.
(kənˈsɪgnɪfaɪ)
[f. med.L. consignificāre (Duns Scotus), f. con- + significāre to signify, denote.]
To signify conjointly; to mean or signify when combined with something.
| 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Obs. (1650) 151 And such a one as might very well be in company and consignify with that worke of God, that strange worke. 1662 Petty Taxes 67 The tythes in this place, do together with the said proportion, consignify the use of it, viz. the maintenance of the clergy. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. i. §6. 46 Words..such as consignifie and serve to circumstantiate other words with which they are joyned. 1786 H. Tooke Purley (1798) I. 305 The cypher, which has no value of itself, and only serves (if I may use the language of Grammarians) to connote and consignify, and to change the value of the figures. |