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194 words match “IGNIFY”

IGNIFY v.
To form into fire. [R.] Stukeley.
ADSIGNIFY v.
To denote additionally. [R.] Tooke.
CONSIGNIFY v.
To signify or denote in combination with something else. The cipher . . . only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. Horne Tooke.
DIGNIFY v.
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.
FORESIGNIFY v.
To signify beforehand; to foreshow; to typify. Milton.
INDIGNIFY v.
To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.] Spenser.
LIGNIFY v. 2 definitions
To convert into wood or into a ligneous substance.
MALIGNIFY v.
To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." Southey.
PRESIGNIFY v.
To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.
SIGNIFY v. 2 definitions
to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus I have resign'd my charge to you. Shak. The government should signify to the Protestants of Ireland that want of silver is not to be remedied. Swift.
A n.
An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.
ALLELUIA; ALLELUIAH n.
An exclamation signifying Praise ye Jehovah. Hence: A song of praise to God. See Hallelujah, the commoner form. I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia. Rev. xix. 1.
AMOUNT v.
To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
AMPHI- n.
A prefix in words of Greek origin, signifying both, of both kinds, on both sides, about, around.
ANCE n. 2 definitions
A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.
APPELLATIVELY adv.
or species; as, Hercules is sometimes used appellatively, that is, as a common name, to signify a strong man.
ARCH- n.
A prefix signifying chief, as in archbuilder, archfiend.
ARCHI- n.
A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.
ARGUFY v.
To signify. [Colloq.]
BE v.
To signify; to represent or symbolize; to answer to. The field is the world. Matt. xiii. 38. The seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. Rev. i. 20.
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