designative
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We once had the Free States and the Slave States, and these two terms were designative of two sections into which the country was then divided on the question of slavery.
From Confiscation; an outline by William Greenwood
But in course of time these words have lost their force—their meaning has been forgotten—and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.
From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
