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† signacle Obs.
Also 4–5 sygn-, 5 synacle; Sc. 6 signakle, 8 sinacle.
[a. OF. signacle, sinacle, etc., ad. late L. signāculum, dim. from signum sign n.]
1. A sign, seal, mark, figure.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. ix. 2 Ȝe ben the sygnacle, or litil signe, of myn apostilhed in the Lord. c1400Lydg. æsop's Fab. iii. 171 The name of god..Is the signacle of the celestial seale. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lix. 140 This grace is..a propre signacle of þe chosen children of god. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 431 b/1 He had the Sygnacle or fygure of the holy crosse in soo right grete reuerence that he eschewed to trede on hit. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxxv. 18 All thing maling we dovne thring, Be sicht of his signakle. a1555Bradford Medit. (1607) 96 The sacrament of circumcision, which as the Apostle calleth the seale or signacle of righteousnes. 1656in Blount Glossogr.
2. A sign or gesture.
c1450Lovelich Grail xxxviii. 62 Whanne Nasciens knew that he hol was Be the signacle of [= made by] þe Man In that plas. 1490Caxton Eneydos v. 21 The sayd wymmen were alle dyssheuelled,..makynge merueylous synacles, as theyr custume was in that tyme.
3. Sc. A slight token or trace.
1768Ross Helenore i. 8 Never a sinacle of life was there. 1790Shirrefs Poems Gl. 32 Sinacle, a grain, a small quantity. |