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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Signify \Sig"ni*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Signified}; p. pr &
vb n. {Signifying}.] [F. signifier, L. significare; signum a
sign + -ficare (in comp.) to make See {Sign}, n., and
{-fy}.]
1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional
token, as words gestures, signals, or the like to
announce; to make known to declare; to express; as a
signified his desire to be present.
I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I
have resign'd my charge to you --Shak.
The government should signify to the Protestants of
Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied.
--Swift.
2. To mean to import; to denote; to betoken.
He bade her tell him what it signified. --Chaucer.
A tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. --Shak.
Note: Signify is often used impersonally; as it signifies
nothing, it does not signify, that is it is of no
importance.
Syn: To express; manifest; declare; utter; intimate; betoken;
denote; imply; mean
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