单词 | signatory |
释义 | signatoryadj.n. A. adj. 1. That is used in sealing documents; containing or serving as a signet or seal. Frequently in signatory ring (cf. signet ring n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > sealing > [adjective] signatory1647 sigillary1652 sigillar1656 sigillistic1867 sphragistic1884 1647 S. Torshell Designe disposing Bible into Harmony 24 Georg. Longus of Milain, concerning signatory Rings. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Signatory, that is used or serves to seal withal; As Annulus signatorius, a Seal-Ring, a Signet. 1765 J. Gill Expos. Old Test. III. 171/1 The Targum calls it his signatory ring, that with which he signed laws, edicts, letters, patents, &c. 1837 I. Cobbin Condensed Comm. & Family Expos. Holy Bible 527/1 It was his signatory ring. 1903 H. K. Aspinall Birkenhead & its Surroundings vii. 60 These wafers were somewhat similar to signatory seals. 1990 B. Ingram-Ward in L. M. Russell Church with AIDS ii. iv. 71 An eclectic entourage of theologians, priests, and pastors, some collared, signatory rings and pectoral crosses announcing our presence. 2. Of a person or state: having signed a particular document, esp. a treaty. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > [adjective] > one whose signature is attached to a document signatory1847 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [adjective] > undersigned (of persons) underwritten1425 undersigned1643 signatory1847 1847 Times 20 Jan. 5/2 As signatory witnesses to the treaty of Vienna I ask the Government what was the severance of Belgium from Holland? 1892 A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus I. 116 The signatory chiefs agreed to deliver up all captives, and to keep the peace forever. 1930 Observer 7 Sept. 8/7 The aggressed State would raise loans..but the service of the loans would be guaranteed by the signatory States. 1995 B. Connolly Rotten Heart of Europe v. 118 Several of the signatory countries did not have a hope in hell of respecting all the criteria by 1997. B. n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > types of legal or official document > [noun] > writing prepared as ground of royal grant signator1473 signature1488 signatory1659 1659 in MSS Earl of Dartmouth (1896) III. 98 in Parl. Papers (C. 8156) XLVIII. 333 The annual revenue of Scotland was..By Composition of Signatories in the Exchequer. 2. A person who or state which has signed a particular document, esp. a treaty. Cf. signatary n.In quot. 1826: a person on whose behalf a treaty has been signed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > ratification or confirmation > [noun] > putting one's signature to a document > one who subscriver1562 subscriber1574 signer1611 signatary1793 signatory1826 signator1893 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > [noun] > signer subscriber1574 signer1611 signator1650 indorser1766 signatary1793 signatory1826 signee1866 1826 Times 26 Aug. 2/4 His Imperial Majesty grants to the subjects of his most Christian Majesty, the privilege of being signatories of the Brazilian customs. 1866 Contemp. Rev. 1 261 That the twenty signatories were..the majority of the members present in the Lower House. 1893 H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey I. xi. 268 An address to the Archbishop of Canterbury, assuring him of the adherence of the signatories to the doctrine..of the Church. 1909 Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 4/7 How those petitions against the Budget would shrink if the signatories would take the trouble to know something about it before acceding to the importunities of the petition-mongers! 1960 Dominion (Wellington) 17 Oct. 10 My great-great uncle was a signatory to the Treaty of Waitangi. 2007 Ecologist July 11/3 China is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1647 |
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