单词 | signation |
释义 | signationn. 1. The action of sign v.1; esp. the action of blessing or consecrating by making the sign of the cross. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [noun] signeting1557 signation1607 sigillation1642 sealing1674 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist i. ii. 76 Whence is the Vnction called signation, consignation, obsignation (with the like) but from the Crosse? 1637 C. Dow Answer to H. Burton 207 The blessed Eucharist wherein they acknowledge..no other exhibition than by way of signation or obsignation. 1659 H. More Immortality of Soul iii. iii. 7 Those other Examples of the Signation of the Fœtus from the Mothers' Fancy, which Fienus rejecteth. 1748 M. Towgood Dissenting Gentleman's Third Lett. i. 10 One good Bishop..taking it into his Head that there ought to be a Trine-Immersion in Baptism; another the Signation of the Cross; another an Unction with Oyl. 1848 Christian Remembrancer 16 199 The Church of England permits..the signation of the elements during their consecration in either Sacrament. 1883 Church Times 21 953/1 The Greek signation with the Cross is made from right to left. 1905 Ont. Law Rep. 9 23 Subsequent signation of a bygone contract. 1992 H. O. Old Shaping of Reformed Baptismal Rite 16th Cent. i. 10 The signation, or putting the sign of the cross on the candidate for baptism, appears in all the German baptismal rites of this period. 2. A distinctive mark; = signature n. 5. rare after 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > marks > [noun] > distinctive mark signature1614 signation1646 society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > mark of identification > [noun] marklOE signc1300 charactc1384 signaclec1384 badge1526 earmark1551 character1597 signature1605 stampa1616 designation1646 signation1646 insignition1660 signate1662 ear tag1876 ken-mark1885 laundry mark1924 pink triangle1950 sigillum1966 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 100 It somewhat resembles an horseshooe, which..Baptista Porta hath thought too low a signation, and raised the same unto a Lunarie representation. View more context for this quotation 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie Pref. sig. B The shels of Sea-snails having the signation of long ears. 1901 R. D. Darbishire in Mem. & Proc. Manch. Literary & Philos. Soc. (1902) 46 13 One stone may be found with a remarkable signation which may well be compared with the broken stones of the stream or of surface frost. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1607 |
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