significative

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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

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

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

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

These sculptures of St. Zeno are, however, quite quiet and tame compared with those of St. Michele of Pavia, which are designed also in a somewhat gloomier mood; significative, as I think, of indigestion.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John

None agree, however, as to the significative meaning of the name Asshur.

From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Le Plongeon, Augustus