consignify
verbEtymology From con- + signify.
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To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.
- spirits are angels, that is to say messengers: all which words do consignify locality; and locality is dimension; and whatsoever hath dimension, is body, be it never so subtile.1640, Thomas Hobbbes, The Elements of Law:
- The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures.1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:
- Derived terms
- consignification