significative

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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

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

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

They used the words simply as proper names, without regarding them as significative.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

Nor are the little curves, thus significative of trees, laid on at random.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

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