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▪ I. significate, n.|sɪgˈnɪfɪkət|
Also 5, 7 -at.
[ad. L. significāt-um, pa. pple. neut. of significāre to signify. So obs. F. significat.]
That which is signified or symbolized.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. v. 163 The likenes of a signe to his significat (that is to seie, to the thing signified bi him). 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 7 Wyse men haue taken in hand to make rules of speaking, that is, the constructions of the Regimente, and of the Significates. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 435/2 Chrysippus divided Dialectick into two parts,..of Significants, and Significats. 1827Whately Logic ii. i. §3 A common term stands for several individuals. Note. These individuals are called its significates. 1874Contemp. Rev. XXIV. 692 In a symbol there is always something more to be understood than the symbol itself—namely, the significates.
▪ II. † significate, pa. pple. Obs. rare.
[ad. pa. pple. of L. significāre: see prec.]
Signified, indicated.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 373 Thauȝhe fables be not trewe, neuertheles thei cause trawthe in the thynge significate by theyme. 1533Bellenden Livy (S.T.S.) II. 272 Thus war sex centuris of horsmen ekit..vnder the auld Names as war significate afore be augurys. |