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With great extent of signification; comprehensively. Tillotson.

Agreeing in derivation and radical signification; -- said of words.

Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.

Having the same signification. Cockerham.

To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to define a word, a phrase, or a scientific term. They define virtue to be life ordered according to nature. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Having certain limits in signification; determinate; certain; precise; fixed; exact; clear; as, a definite word, term, or expression.

Act of ascertaining and explaining the signification; a description of a thing by its properties; an explanation of the meaning of a word or term; as, the definition of "circle;" the definition of "wit;" an exact definition; a loose definition. Definition being nothing but making another understand by words what the te…

A word used to define or limit the extent of the signification of a common noun, such as the definite article, and some pronouns.

Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase. Finite and infinite seem . . . to be attributed primarily, in their first designation, only to those things have parts. Locke.

To discriminate; to separate according to specific signification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.] Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed. Hall.

seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense; the second intention; a hidden signification. Sir T. Browne.

arle. Two or more of the forms assumed by the same original word become differentiated in signification. Dr. Murray.

there is hardly room to digress into a particular definition as often as a man varies the signification of any term. Locke.

A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passive signification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of an action, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right is conferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It is correlative to -or, the agent or doer.

of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience. The province of emphasis is so much more important than accent, that the customary seat of the latter is changed, when the claims of emphasis require it. E.…

such as our own personality. Shairp. Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification. Bentley.

m. Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. B. Cracroft.

Equality of power, force, signification, or application. Boyle.

Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently.

The condition of being equivalent or equal; equality of worth, value, signification, or force; as, an equivalence of definitions.