单词 | adsignification |
释义 | adsignificationn. Grammar and Linguistics. Now rare. Additional or further signification added to the basic sense of a word or phrase, typically through grammatical elements indicating tense, gender, etc. Also: the result of this; an additional meaning or signification. Cf. adsignify v. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > [noun] > secondary adsignification1607 by-meaninga1856 1607 R. Bernard Faithfull Shepheard viii. 59 If you haue no plaine place, prooue it by..Logicall reasoning, from signification of a word, from Grammaticall adsignification. 1629 A. Richardson Logicians School-master 134 Wee doe not respect the adsignification of time. 1805 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα (ed. 2) II. 465 I did not mean to deny the adsignification of Time to all the Participles; though I continue to withhold it from that which is called the Participle Present. 1829 Spirit of Pilgrims Aug. 428 [The word] is employed..to designate this [sc. the world], with the adsignifications of..cares, business, pleasures, etc. 1850 Bibliotheca Sacra Apr. 310 The adsignification of a frail and perishable body is doubtless coupled with this word [sc. the Hebrew for flesh]. 1991 E. Itkonen Univ. Hist. Linguistics: India, China, Arabia, Europe v. iv. 256 On the semantic side the grammarian is allowed to consider only such ‘adsignifications’ as number, gender, degree, case, person, and tense. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1607 |
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