significsn.
/sᵻɡˈnɪfɪks/, U.S. /sᵻɡˈnɪfɪks/ A proposed scientific discipline and educational method based upon the importance of realizing the exact significance of terms and conceptions, and their influence on thought and life.Introduced by Lady Welby (1837–1912) in the late 19th cent., significs later became the focus of research in the Netherlands, after it attracted the attention of the Dutch psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden (1860–1932).
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > literal meaning > [noun] > disposition to accept > method upholding
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1896 Lady Welby in Mind Jan. 32 Taking advantage of the child's endless store of interest and curiosity, it ought to be easy to make ‘significs’ or ‘sensifics’ the most attractive of studies.
1903 Lady Welby in Mind 161 Significs, then, will bring us the philosophy of Significance, i.e. a raising of our whole conception of meaning to a higher and more efficient level.
1951 Philos. Sci. 18 262 The first meeting of people concerned with significs in Holland occurred during the first World War in 1915.
2005 D. Dalen Mystic, Geometer & Intuitionist II. xiv. 569 The only one who was willing to devote his scientific career to significs was Mannoury.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1896- to give in charge (to
- to give in evidence
- to give in gage
- to give in hand
- to give in lot to
- to give in marriage
- to give in one's adhesion to
- to give in security
- to give in warison
- to give into
- to give into custody
- to give into marriage
- to give into one's bosom
- to give into the care of
- to give into the custody of
- to give into the hands of
- to give it
- to give it a bit of a nudge
- to give it a burl
- to give it a fly
- to give it a person hot
- to give it away
- to give it best
- to give it hot
- to give it in the neck