semiotic

alternative semeiotic · alternative semeiotical · alternative semiotical

1. not comparableOf or relating to semiotics or to semantics.

   Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.

   2012, Michele Zappavigna, Discourse of Twitter and Social Media

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   Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.

   2025 August 20, Richard Garnett, “The Ten Commandments and a “secular purpose””, in SCOTUSblog

2. datednot comparablemedicinesymptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)