semioticadj.n.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines i. i. 13 The chiefe..part of Physicke diagnosticke or semioticke, which teacheth vs to know the nature, causes, and substance of the disease by the signes and grounds of the same.

1874 Dunglison's Med. Lexicon (rev. ed.) Semiotic, symptomatic.

1898 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Semeiotic.

1797 Monthly Mag. 3 269/1 That the Egyptians were not acquainted with the alphabet, till the time of Psammeticus, and that commerce alone gave birth to semeiotic signs.

1923 H. G. Baynes tr. C. G. Jung Psychol. Types i. 82 I say ‘semiotic’ in contradistinction to ‘symbolic’. What Freud terms symbols are no more than signs for elementary instinctive processes.

1957 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxviii. 4 It is an utterance that ‘craves’ a verbal or other semiotic (e.g., a nod) response.

1973 tr. O. S. Akhmanova & Marĉenko Meaning Equivalence & Linguistics Expression 7 The Morse code is a semiotic system par excellence, for in it every unit of content and every unit of expression are in regular one-to-one correspondence... The same applies..to all the other semiotic systems such as, for instance, notation in music, or chemical formulae, or mathematical signs.

1974 S. Morawski Inquiries into Fund. Aesthetics viii. 302 The fourth approach..considers the artistic communication itself and its semiotic connections.

1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) vii. 257 No doubt this semeiotic treasure-lode [sc. a wallet] enriches the arcana of some light-fingered ex-nomad.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xx. 361 The third Branch may be called σημιωτικὴ, or else Doctrine of Signs, the most usual whereof being Words, it is aptly enough termed also λογικὴ, Logick.]

c1897 C. S. Peirce Coll. Papers (1932) II. ii. ii. 134 Logic, in its general sense, is..only another name for semiotic (οημειωτική), the quasi-necessary, or formal, doctrine of signs.

1937 C. Morris Logical Positivism 4 Semiotic being the general science which includes all of these [dimensions] and their interrelations.

1953 F. J. Whitfield tr. L. Hjelmslev Prolegomena to Theory of Lang. 76 The so-called metalanguage (or, we should say, metasemiotic), by which is meant a semiotic that treats of a semiotic.

1973 R. Jakobson Sci. of Lang. ii. 32 The subject matter of semiotic is the communication of any messages whatever, whereas the field of linguistics is confined to the communication of verbal messages.

1946 C. Morris Signs, Lang. & Behavior i. i. 4 At some point the semiotician must say: ‘Henceforth we will recognize that anything which fulfills certain conditions is a sign.’

1946 Mind 55 46 Other groups of workers in the same field, as, for example..the Semioticians (e.g. Carnap, Morris).

1960 H. Read Forms of Things Unknown i. ii. 34 In general, semioticians have confined themselves to the study of the various types of discourse which make use of language.

1976 Visible Language X. 68 It is possible, in the case of some ‘auto-illustrations’, to follow those semioticians who prefer to view iconic motivation as a special case of metonymic pars pro toto.