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significator|ˈsɪgnɪfɪkeɪtə(r)|
[a. med.L. significātor, agent-noun f. L. significāre to signify. Cf. F. significateur.]
1. Astrol.
a. The planet by which the querent or the quesited is specially signified (see quot. 1647).
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xi. xxi. (1886) 169 They seeke to find out the meaning of the significators, attributing to them the ends of all things. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. 48 When we name the Lord of the Ascendant, or Significator of the Querent, or thing quesited; we meane no other thing then that Planet who is Lord of that Signe which ascends, or Lord of that Signe from which house the thing demanded is required. 1671Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Phys. Pref. 4 Who is strongest in the Heavens by essential dignities, shall afflict the Principal significator of the sick. 1815Scott Guy M. iv, There was one significator, which pressed remarkably upon our astrologer's attention. 1895Mod. Astrol. I. 21 The position of the Significator, or lord of the Ascendant, in the fixed sign Taurus.
b. (See quot.)
1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Ascendent, The Degree of the Equator which rises upon the Horizon, at the Time of the Birth of any one,..is also called the First House, the Oriental Angle, and the Significator of Life.
2. That which signifies or indicates. rare.
1649Heylin Relat. & Observ. ii. 252 To leavy warre against the Parliament, shall stand alone, be the onely significator, and take up the whole roome in the Endictment. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 292 The most principal significator of the varieties of weather, the Countryman esteems the Moon to be. |