单词 | unsignifying |
释义 | unsignifyingadj. (un- prefix1 4.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > [adjective] emptya1225 sleevelessc1450 dumb1531 insensible1538 senseless1579 weetless1579 unsignificant1603 surd1605 matterless1612 unmeaning1632 non-significative1633 brute1642 shelly1648 insignificant1651 insignificative1660 unsignificative1664 unsignifying1665 unsensed1667 meaningless1728 bilka1734 meanless1734 inexpressive1744 unideal1751 unexpressive1755 idealess1793 unsuggestive1797 tenorless1821 themeless1840 nonsensible1851 inarticulate1855 purportless1865 expressionless1871 vacuous1872 contentless1886 unmeaningful1897 1665 J. Sergeant Sure-footing in Christianity Ep. Ded. They carry the war out of the bounds of Science..and transfer it to a kind of Spatium Imaginarium of Fancy and unsignifying sounds. a1680 Glanvill in Disc., etc. (1681) 407 Such a Faith as this is that which St. James writes so earnestly against, as dead, and unsignifying (of it self alone) to the purpose of Justification. 1727 D. Defoe Syst. Magick i. iii. 66 Muttering over them some unsignifying Significations. 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 86/1 A tune is named generally after some place, as ‘York’,..or by some other unsignifying word. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adj.1665 |
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