significative

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I perceived the essence of their delight and gratification, which arose chiefly from this, that all things and each thing they heard from the Word were representative and significative of heavenly and spiritual things.

From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John

They have likewise a great many significative compositions in their verses.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Now it is the experience of all that dreams are significative of the future.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

The Quakers, in reply to this, would observe, that they use the word friend, as significative of their own union, and, when they speak to others, as significative of their Christian relation to one another.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson, Thomas

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 Rawlinson, George