signifyingn.

Brit.

/ˈsɪɡnᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see signify v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English signifieyng, 1500s signifieing.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: signify v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < signify v. + -ing suffix¹ Compare significance n., signification n., and earlier sign n., signifiance n.In sense 1b in early use after classical Latin significātiō signification n.

a. The action or process of indicating or intimating something; signification. Formerly also: †meaning, significance (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [noun]

tokeningc888

betokeningc1175

signifyinga1382

signancec1450

denotation?1533

indication1626

marking1904

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 24 Þis booc stant in an hundrid & fifty salmys, not beside þe resoun of heiȝere signyfiynge; þis forsoþe noumbre is notid to most solempne mysteries.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 586 Þe kyng..had þerof dotaunce,..And bad hem telle of whiche þing Jt miȝth be signifieyng.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 2868 Thanne of merlyne often axede þe kyng What of the dragouns was þe signefyeng.

1565 J. Rastell Replie Def. Truth iv. f. 62 To the signifieing of our thankes, we might either sing them by mouth, or sound them by instrumentes.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 33 Signes appropriated to the signifying of that honour we owe to God.

1762 D. Lyle Art of Short Hand Improved I. Pref. p. xi Speaking, is the signifying of our thoughts only.

1819 M. Timueff Let. 25 May in C. C. Southey Life A. Bell (1844) III. 614 Reading signifies either pronouncing the sounds of signs, or understanding the signifying of things.

1888 J. J. Aubertin Fight with Distances vii. 137 One of them, at the signifying of my request, exhibited the mode of eating his basin of rice with chop-sticks.

1906 Times 15 Feb. 9/2 In the House of Lords, yesterday, the only business..was the signifying of the Royal approbation of the election of Mr. J. W. Lowther as Speaker of the House of Commons.

1977 Dædalus Fall 105 The potential complexities of signifying processes work freely in literature.

2009 D. S. Long Speaking of God iii. 174 When is say ‘Aristotle is wise’ and ‘God is wise’ our mode of signifying is the same.

b. An act or instance of signifying something; a sign, symbol; a signal.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign

tokeningc888

fingereOE

senyeOE

markOE

showing?c1225

blossomc1230

signa1325

signifyingc1384

evidencea1393

notea1398

forbysena1400

kenninga1400

knowinga1400

showerc1400

unningc1400

signala1413

signification?a1425

demonstrancec1425

cenyc1440

likelinessc1450

ensign1474

signifure?a1475

outshowinga1500

significativea1500

witter1513

precedent1518

intimation1531

signifier1532

meith1533

monument1536

indicion?1541

likelihood1541

significator1554

manifest1561

show1561

evidency1570

token-teller1574

betokener1587

calendar1590

instance1590

testificate1590

significant1598

crisis1606

index1607

impression1613

denotementa1616

story1620

remark1624

indicium1625

denotation1633

indice1636

signum1643

indiction1653

trace1656

demonstrator1657

indication1660

notationa1661

significatory1660

indicator1666

betrayer1678

demonstration1684

smell1691

wittering1781

notaa1790

blazonry1850

sign vehicle1909

marker1919

rumble1927

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. vii. 45 Thei sungen in trumpis after hem with signyfiyngus [L. significationibus].

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms lix. 6 Thou hast ȝoue a signefiyng [L. significationem] to hem that dreden thee; that thei fle fro the face of the bouwe.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xx. A It is a token and signifienge of the thinge, that after thre yeare shal come vpon Egipte and Ethiopia.

1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 10 Not the foolish signifyings, and shadowes of the thing.

1792 Lawyer's & Magistrate's Mag. 2 368 The acceptance of wages was a signifying of the consent on his part.

1896 Homiletic Rev. Sept. 232/2 In the prophetic signifyings of the Holy Ghost there were many foreshadowings of the coming of the Son of God.

1938 Harvard Law Rev. 51 459 It [sc. the science of positive law] has to do with objective signifyings of that reality because those signifyings are norms and imperatives.

1992 N. N. Holland Critical I xx. 121 There can never be..some ‘presence’ that provides either an origin or an end of the chain of signifyings.

2. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). The action of boasting, bragging, or making insulting remarks, esp. as part of a verbal contest.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun]

teenOE

scoffing1377

jeering1561

gibing1579

scoffery1589

girding1605

scoffagea1639

jeer1660

scommatism1664

chi-hike1915

signifying1929

picongc1938

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boasting scornfully or insultingly

insultationa1513

insultmenta1616

insulting1628

signifying1929

smack talking1990

1929 T. Gordon Born to Be xv.162 No signifying with that gang, they laid it.

1959 A. Anderson Lover Man 21 ‘Y'all hush your signifying,’ I said. ‘That there's a lady, and I won't have y'all signifying 'bout her like that.’

1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 206 Mezzrow describes a signifying scene in Big John's bar in Harlem.

2006 P. Williams-Forson Building Houses out of Chicken Legs i. v. 135 Signifying and playing or ‘doing’ the dozens are rooted in African American oral traditions and cultural expression.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

signifyingadj.

Brit.

/ˈsɪɡnᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪɪŋ/

Forms: see signify v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: signify v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < signify v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier significative adj., signifying n., and later significant adj.

1. That signifies or indicates something; significant, meaningful.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [adjective]

significative?a1400

signifyingc1443

significate?a1475

articulate1531

significant1573

significatory1579

semiotic1797

c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 253 (MED) Sacramenting..muste be vndirstondun for outward worschiping bi open, outward, felable, and sensible þingis diuerse fro signifiyng voice.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 69 The same offering..is called the passion..of Christ,..in a signifying mysterie.

1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 2 There is a signifying voyce in the naturall signes of the Hand.

a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1773) III. 364 The signifying thing in baptism is water.

1882 Q. Rev. Jan. 49 The systematic obliteration of the signifying word from the pages of that Book to which we refer exclusively for our knowledge of the remarkable thing signified.

1921 Times 1 Nov. 12/2 By a singular, if not, indeed, a signifying coincidence, he had asked me to pay him a visit that afternoon.

2005 M. Cunningham Specimen Days (2006) 304 Luke..returned a signifying look. Crazy. These people are crazy.

†2. Mathematics. = significant adj. 2b. Esp. in signifying figure, signifying number. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > of arithmetical significance

signifying1543

six-figure1840

five-figure1842

1543 R. Record Ground of Artes f. 8 Of those .x one doth sygnifie nothyng... The other .ix are called sygnifienge fygures.

1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. xii. 161 If..you finde you haue taken manie nullities for signifying numbers, manie smaller signifiers for greater; correct the totall.

1719 H. Johnson New Treat. Pract. Arithmetick (ed. 4) ii. 4 If any Figure has a Cypher..join'd with it, it shall still keep the Value of its Place as much as if a signifying Figure stood in the Room of the Cypher or Cyphers.

3. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). That boasts, brags, or makes insulting remarks, esp. as part of a verbal contest; of or relating to the practice of signifying (signifying n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boasting scornfully or insultingly

insultinga1616

insultanta1633

signifying1947

trash-talking1975

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [adjective] > jeering, taunting, or scoffing

scoffing1538

jesting1551

gibing1574

jeering1581

scommatizing1613

girdinga1617

flirting1651

signifying1947

1947 Billboard 10 May 122 (title of song) Signifying Woman.

1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) i. 11 The language is Creole French and the New Orleans Creoles call it a ‘signifying song’... This song cuts two ways and the sali dame (dirty lady) to which it is addressed is about to have her reputation shredded.

1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem xix. 189 He looked like one of the real-gone cats with his signifying walk.

1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 207 Deep down in the jungle where the coconuts grow/Lived the signifyingest motherfucker that the world ever know.

2003 F. R. Walker in R. L. Jackson & E. B. Richardson Understanding Afr. Amer. Rhetoric xv. 259 Cochran's negative imaging of the prosecution team is delivered in a signifyin' style.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	signifying
释义	signifyingn. Brit. /ˈsɪɡnᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see signify v. and -ing suffix¹; also Middle English signifieyng, 1500s signifieing. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: signify v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < signify v. + -ing suffix¹ Compare significance n., signification n., and earlier sign n., signifiance n.In sense 1b in early use after classical Latin significātiō signification n. 1. a. The action or process of indicating or intimating something; signification. Formerly also: †meaning, significance (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] tokeningc888 betokeningc1175 signifyinga1382 signancec1450 denotation?1533 indication1626 marking1904 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms Prol. l. 24 Þis booc stant in an hundrid & fifty salmys, not beside þe resoun of heiȝere signyfiynge; þis forsoþe noumbre is notid to most solempne mysteries. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 586 Þe kyng..had þerof dotaunce,..And bad hem telle of whiche þing Jt miȝth be signifieyng. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 2868 Thanne of merlyne often axede þe kyng What of the dragouns was þe signefyeng. 1565 J. Rastell Replie Def. Truth iv. f. 62 To the signifieing of our thankes, we might either sing them by mouth, or sound them by instrumentes. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 33 Signes appropriated to the signifying of that honour we owe to God. 1762 D. Lyle Art of Short Hand Improved I. Pref. p. xi Speaking, is the signifying of our thoughts only. 1819 M. Timueff Let. 25 May in C. C. Southey Life A. Bell (1844) III. 614 Reading signifies either pronouncing the sounds of signs, or understanding the signifying of things. 1888 J. J. Aubertin Fight with Distances vii. 137 One of them, at the signifying of my request, exhibited the mode of eating his basin of rice with chop-sticks. 1906 Times 15 Feb. 9/2 In the House of Lords, yesterday, the only business..was the signifying of the Royal approbation of the election of Mr. J. W. Lowther as Speaker of the House of Commons. 1977 Dædalus Fall 105 The potential complexities of signifying processes work freely in literature. 2009 D. S. Long Speaking of God iii. 174 When is say ‘Aristotle is wise’ and ‘God is wise’ our mode of signifying is the same. b. An act or instance of signifying something; a sign, symbol; a signal. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [noun] > an indication or sign tokeningc888 fingereOE senyeOE markOE showing?c1225 blossomc1230 signa1325 signifyingc1384 evidencea1393 notea1398 forbysena1400 kenninga1400 knowinga1400 showerc1400 unningc1400 signala1413 signification?a1425 demonstrancec1425 cenyc1440 likelinessc1450 ensign1474 signifure?a1475 outshowinga1500 significativea1500 witter1513 precedent1518 intimation1531 signifier1532 meith1533 monument1536 indicion?1541 likelihood1541 significator1554 manifest1561 show1561 evidency1570 token-teller1574 betokener1587 calendar1590 instance1590 testificate1590 significant1598 crisis1606 index1607 impression1613 denotementa1616 story1620 remark1624 indicium1625 denotation1633 indice1636 signum1643 indiction1653 trace1656 demonstrator1657 indication1660 notationa1661 significatory1660 indicator1666 betrayer1678 demonstration1684 smell1691 wittering1781 notaa1790 blazonry1850 sign vehicle1909 marker1919 rumble1927 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Macc. vii. 45 Thei sungen in trumpis after hem with signyfiyngus [L. significationibus]. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms lix. 6 Thou hast ȝoue a signefiyng [L. significationem] to hem that dreden thee; that thei fle fro the face of the bouwe. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xx. A It is a token and signifienge of the thinge, that after thre yeare shal come vpon Egipte and Ethiopia. 1570 B. Googe tr. T. Kirchmeyer Popish Kingdome i. f. 10 Not the foolish signifyings, and shadowes of the thing. 1792 Lawyer's & Magistrate's Mag. 2 368 The acceptance of wages was a signifying of the consent on his part. 1896 Homiletic Rev. Sept. 232/2 In the prophetic signifyings of the Holy Ghost there were many foreshadowings of the coming of the Son of God. 1938 Harvard Law Rev. 51 459 It [sc. the science of positive law] has to do with objective signifyings of that reality because those signifyings are norms and imperatives. 1992 N. N. Holland Critical I xx. 121 There can never be..some ‘presence’ that provides either an origin or an end of the chain of signifyings. 2. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). The action of boasting, bragging, or making insulting remarks, esp. as part of a verbal contest. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [noun] teenOE scoffing1377 jeering1561 gibing1579 scoffery1589 girding1605 scoffagea1639 jeer1660 scommatism1664 chi-hike1915 signifying1929 picongc1938 the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [noun] > boasting scornfully or insultingly insultationa1513 insultmenta1616 insulting1628 signifying1929 smack talking1990 1929 T. Gordon Born to Be xv.162 No signifying with that gang, they laid it. 1959 A. Anderson Lover Man 21 ‘Y'all hush your signifying,’ I said. ‘That there's a lady, and I won't have y'all signifying 'bout her like that.’ 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 206 Mezzrow describes a signifying scene in Big John's bar in Harlem. 2006 P. Williams-Forson Building Houses out of Chicken Legs i. v. 135 Signifying and playing or ‘doing’ the dozens are rooted in African American oral traditions and cultural expression. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). signifyingadj. Brit. /ˈsɪɡnᵻfʌɪɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪɪŋ/ Forms: see signify v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: signify v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < signify v. + -ing suffix². Compare earlier significative adj., signifying n., and later significant adj. 1. That signifies or indicates something; significant, meaningful. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [adjective] significative?a1400 signifyingc1443 significate?a1475 articulate1531 significant1573 significatory1579 semiotic1797 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 253 (MED) Sacramenting..muste be vndirstondun for outward worschiping bi open, outward, felable, and sensible þingis diuerse fro signifiyng voice. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 69 The same offering..is called the passion..of Christ,..in a signifying mysterie. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 2 There is a signifying voyce in the naturall signes of the Hand. a1732 T. Boston Illustr. Doctr. Christian Relig. (1773) III. 364 The signifying thing in baptism is water. 1882 Q. Rev. Jan. 49 The systematic obliteration of the signifying word from the pages of that Book to which we refer exclusively for our knowledge of the remarkable thing signified. 1921 Times 1 Nov. 12/2 By a singular, if not, indeed, a signifying coincidence, he had asked me to pay him a visit that afternoon. 2005 M. Cunningham Specimen Days (2006) 304 Luke..returned a signifying look. Crazy. These people are crazy. †2. Mathematics. = significant adj. 2b. Esp. in signifying figure, signifying number. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical notation or symbol > [adjective] > written or designated by figures > of arithmetical significance signifying1543 six-figure1840 five-figure1842 1543 R. Record Ground of Artes f. 8 Of those .x one doth sygnifie nothyng... The other .ix are called sygnifienge fygures. 1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. xii. 161 If..you finde you haue taken manie nullities for signifying numbers, manie smaller signifiers for greater; correct the totall. 1719 H. Johnson New Treat. Pract. Arithmetick (ed. 4) ii. 4 If any Figure has a Cypher..join'd with it, it shall still keep the Value of its Place as much as if a signifying Figure stood in the Room of the Cypher or Cyphers. 3. U.S. slang (chiefly in African-American usage). That boasts, brags, or makes insulting remarks, esp. as part of a verbal contest; of or relating to the practice of signifying (signifying n. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > [adjective] > boasting scornfully or insultingly insultinga1616 insultanta1633 signifying1947 trash-talking1975 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > jeering, taunting, or scoffing > [adjective] > jeering, taunting, or scoffing scoffing1538 jesting1551 gibing1574 jeering1581 scommatizing1613 girdinga1617 flirting1651 signifying1947 1947 Billboard 10 May 122 (title of song) Signifying Woman. 1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) i. 11 The language is Creole French and the New Orleans Creoles call it a ‘signifying song’... This song cuts two ways and the sali dame (dirty lady) to which it is addressed is about to have her reputation shredded. 1965 C. Himes Cotton comes to Harlem xix. 189 He looked like one of the real-gone cats with his signifying walk. 1974 H. L. Foster Ribbin', Jivin', & Playin' Dozens v. 207 Deep down in the jungle where the coconuts grow/Lived the signifyingest motherfucker that the world ever know. 2003 F. R. Walker in R. L. Jackson & E. B. Richardson Understanding Afr. Amer. Rhetoric xv. 259 Cochran's negative imaging of the prosecution team is delivered in a signifyin' style. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382adj.c1443
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