semioticaladj.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 79 Looke into the semeioticall or presignificative iudgements of phisitions.

1623 J. Hart tr. P. van Foreest Arraignm. Vrines ii. iv. 59 He maketh moreover this semioticall part of Physicke, concerning the signes of diseases, to depend altogether upon conjecture.

1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy Prolegomenon sig. b6 Thirdly, Semeiotical, Treating of the Crisis of Diseases.

1825 T. L. Beddoes Let. 4 Dec. in Wks. (1935) 609 It still remains for some one to exhibit the sum of his experience in mental pathology & therapeutics, not in a cold technical dead description, but a living semiotical display.

1938 C. Morris in Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. ii. 29 ‘Rules of sign usage’, like ‘sign’ itself, is a semiotical term and cannot be stated syntactically or semantically.

1946 Mind LX. 146 As a semiotical psychiatrist, a Therapeutic Positivist has to hand a technique for the resolution of philosophical problems and disputes.

1916 C. E. Long tr. C. G. Jung Coll. Papers Analyt. Psychol. p. vii The Vienna School interprets the psychological symbol semiotically, as a sign or token of certain primitive psychosexual processes.

1972 W. C. Stokoe Semiotics & Human Sign Lang. i. 15 Semiotically considered the difference between fingerspelling and a sign language could hardly be greater.