significative
Example Sentences
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They used the words simply as proper names, without regarding them as significative.
He used the word which was significative beyond any thing that entered his imagination.
From The Allen House by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
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
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
