indicatory

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An indicatory instrument, showing by the virtue of a stone the degrees of declination from the horizon of each several latitude.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

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

The print," he continued, "was the first confirmation of evidence, but it was not the first indicatory sign.

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

Thus from actual imitative pictures we arrive at indicatory pictures.

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