Meanings
present singular third person adsignifies · participle present adsignifying · participle past adsignified · past adsignified
- archaicraretransitiveTo denote additionally.
And if it were so , then indeed the word we are now considering , besides the signification of the Verb , must likewise adsignify some Manner and the Present Time
1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta
Origin
- Latinadsignificare“to show”
- Englishadsignify
Learned borrowing from Latin adsignificare (“to show”). By surface analysis, ad- + signify.
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