significative

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Three of them could henceforth be considered only as significative of the forms in which all matter exists.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

Hence the possible number of words is extremely small, and the number of significative sounds in the Chinese language is said to be no more than 450.

From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

The significative portion of it is the character for 'speech,' but the other half is merely phonetical, enabling us to approximate to its pronunciation or name.

From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by Legge, James

The Smiths, Bakers, and Hunters of Occidental society are not a whit more significative than are many prominent names of the Orient.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas