indicatory

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Regarded in this indicatory light, the battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis—in itself so curious—may well enlist our interest.

From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman

It was originally a picture-writing, which, like the Egyptian, passed from real pictures to indicatory and symbolic pictures or picture-signs.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

And thereupon the subsequent passage, 'He who consists of mind, whose body is breath,' &c. states the object of the meditation in words indicatory of the individual soul.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George

"But," said Marion, "is not the aspect of these peculiarities indicatory of either a natural event or one designed by a human intelligence?"

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson

In the wooded land, especially, it was hopeless to look for any indicatory mark beneath the undergrowth of forty years.

From Patty's Friends by Wells, Carolyn