significative

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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

Signif′icātively, in a significative manner: so as to betoken by an external sign.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

They could frequent the temple, keep their feasts, slay their sacrifices, and be mighty apt about all their significative things.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John

And the less musical but wonderfully significative fourth, stanza— Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor, Deum tamen meum te confiteor, Fac me tibi semper magis credere, In te spem habere, te diligere.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

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