If the expression "original sin" has any definite signification it must be taken to mean the transgression of our parents in Eden.
An approach to identity of meaning appears in early English, in consequence of which fact belief is sometimes given the more definite signification of faith in our versions of the Holy Scriptures.
A signification practically identical with that of "The Church of Jesus Christ.
The Saxon word is beorhta or bright, which I have ventured to translate parched by the sun, as this signification agrees well with the context.
The theory of motions rests on a more solid foundation; at least, it employs a word having a precise signification and resting on a real fact, motion.
Yungaroo phratry, he does not mean merely to apply a common, but none the less a purely conventional, nomenclature to these different things; the word has an objective signification for him.
Which of us knows all the words of the language he speaks and the entire signification of each?
Moreover, it is very easy to answer these myths with others, which seem much more primitive and whose signification is quite different.
But it will be seen from the passages in the Acts that the word is already acquiring somewhat of a bad meaning; and indeed this was almost inevitable, unless the original signification was entirely abandoned.
In the passage before us it is possible that the Greek has the special signification of "putting me into the ministry," but it is by no means certain, and perhaps not even probable, that it does so.
Grose says it is a nickname for an invalid soldier, from the French fougueux, fierce or fiery, but it has lost this signification now.
Another correspondent says the real signification of this phrase is to commit suicide by hanging, from a method planned and carried out by an ostler at an inn on the Great North Road.
We must now give the further signification and determination of this principle.
It is active as well as passive, from its unity severing asunder the conceptions and sublating them, and it is present to itself in its infinitude, so that negative signification and positive come into unison.
We must here remark that the progression from the point to actual space also has the signification of occupation of space, for “according to their fundamental tenets and teaching,” says Aristotle (Metaph.
The significationof these four representations is matter as perfect and imperfect.
Firmness comes from firm, and has a different signification from solidity and hardness; a squeezed cloth, a beaten negro, have firmness without being hard or solid.
This word is derived from "gal" the original signification of which was gayety and rejoicing, as may be seen in Alain Chartier, and in Froissart.
The term received an improved and more noble signification in the times of chivalry, when the desire to please manifested itself in feats of arms, and personal conflict.
The signification of which is this that we go down into the water full of sins and pollutions, but come up again, bringing forth fruit; having in our hearts the fear and hope which is in Jesus, by the spirit.
Moses, therefore, speaking as concerning meats, delivered indeed three great precepts to them in the spiritual signification of those commands.
When two substantives of a different signification meet together, the latter is put in the genitive case, as Ulysses lumen Cyclopis extinxit: Ulysses doused the glim of the Cyclops.
The third is the superlative, which increases or diminishes the signification to the greatest degree, formed from the same case by adding thereto, ssimus.
Verbs neuter have an accusative case of a like signification to themselves, as Pomarii asinus duram servit servitutem: A coster-monger’s donkey serves a hard servitude.
Adverbs are parts of speech used to increase or diminish the signification of words.
Nothing can be more absurd than to suppose that the signification or symbolism attaching to a given form is uniform the world over, as the ideas associated with each must vary with the channels through which they were developed" (p.
No apparently insignificant superfluity is meaningless, they are silently eloquent witnesses of a past significationlike the mute letters in so many of our words.
The symbolic signification of the tau is explained by its resemblance to the Key of Life, or crux ansata of Egypt, so widely diffused throughout all Western Asia.
It is certain that the Hebrew malae and the Greek angelos bear the same signification as our envoy.
For although every symbol has a general signification in agreement with its natural properties and uses, it yet obtains a particularsignification with the individual.
The family hearth in ancient times possessed a far different signification from what it does now, and was considered the family altar, for there the father of the family was wont to offer up his daily prayers and sacrifices.
The confusion of thought into which Professor Lemme seems to fall is due, we cannot help thinking, to the too restricted and negative signification he gives to conscience.
But into the allegorical signification of Mrs Fuller's phoenix, we confess we cannot penetrate.
The phrase has a peculiar significationwhich is worth our consideration.
Soul is nothing but a mere name, which has a rational signification only when we understand by it that part of our body which thinks.
In 1792 appeared his graduating treatise on the third chapter of Genesis, in which he gave an interesting philosophicalsignification to the Mosaic account of the fall.
Plato himself defines dialectics, according to the ordinary signification of the word, as the art of developing knowledge by way of dialogue in questions and answers.
That such a moral signification may always be found without ever entirely repudiating the literal sense, results from the fact that the foundation for a moral religion lay originally in the human reason.
But to explain in detail the signification of the veiled face of Moses, and of his shining uncovered face, would take too long to enter upon here.
Thus Paul shows us in these words what has been effected by Christ's death and burial, and what is the significationof our being buried with him.
Here then is a remarkable instance of the same word having both an active and a passive signification in the same sentence.
But the Bible signification of consecration is to present to Jesus all the sacred treasures of our hearts--give up all our good things.
This is the Bible signification of repentance: To give up all sinful things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "signification" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
