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1839 Spillan tr. Schill Outl. Pathol. Semeiol. 8 These semeiological works.

1862 Year-bk. Med. 1861 (New Sydenham Soc.) 382 Remarks on the Semeiological Value of the Pulse in Child-bed.

1911 N.E.D. at Semeiological In Dicts. also semi-.

1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. 303 What is called change of meaning is essentially a semeiological phenomenon.

1968 C. Jacobson tr. C. Lévi-Strauss Struct. Anthropol. xvii. 364 Anthropology aims to be a semeiological science, and takes as a guiding principle that of ‘meaning’.

1968 Listener 25 Jan. 122/1 The wide-awake analogue to this use of television is the employment of the medium for basic communication—infralinguistic and, if semiological at all, concerned with the most primitive human signals.

1973 D. Osmond-Smith tr. G. Bettetini Lang. & Technique of Film i. 1 The basic material that the Barthes group take as a starting-point for their semiological and aesthetical observations is not their own.

1978 Guardian Weekly 5 Feb. 21/4 In semiological parlance, the film's lacunae often seem rather more important than what's actually happening on screen.