consignification rare.
(kənˌsɪgnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən)
[ad. med.L. consignificātiōn-em (Petrus Hispanus c 1250), n. of action from consignificāre to consignify.]
Joint signification; secondary meaning, connotation; conjoint signification.
| 1701 Beverley Glory of Grace 12 Commonness hath always a consignification of Impurity. 1780 Harris Philol. Inq. iii. x. Wks. (1841) 511 He calls the additional denoting of time by a truly philosophic word, a consignification. 1786 H. Tooke Purley (1798) I. 321 He would tell me that with was a Preposition..and that it had no meaning of its own, but only a connotation or consignification. |