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‖ significacio|sɪgnɪfɪˈkɑːsɪəʊ|
Also significatio.
[med.L.:—L. significātio significance.]
An allegorical meaning; an innuendo.
1933R. Tuve Seasons & Months iii. 85 The common⁓place significatio of Phoebus is to be explained..as a literary inheritance rather than the last faint rumbling of wheels in a pagan festival of the Sun. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love i. 1 It is essential to this form that the literal narrative and the significacio should be separable. 1968J. A. W. Bennett Chaucer's Book of Fame iii. 104 The emphatic negative is not a mere trope; it underlines the double significacio. 1969R. A. Lanham Handlist Rhetorical Terms 92 Significatio,..an innuendo. |