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unˈsignifying, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1665J. Sergeant Sure Footing Ep. Ded., They carry the war out of the bounds of Science..and transfer it to a kind of Spatium Imaginarium of Fancy and unsignifying sounds. a1680Glanvill in Disc., etc. (1681) 407 Such a Faith as this is that which St. James writes so earnestly against, as dead, and unsignifying (of it self alone) to the purpose of Justification. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 65 Muttering over them some unsignifying significations. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 86/1 A tune is named generally after some place, as ‘York’,..or by some other unsignifying word. |