Protagoras was just setting forth various grammatical distinctions, while Prodikus discriminated the significations of words nearly equivalent and liable to be confounded.
Prodikus, again, published one or more treatises intended to elucidate the ambiguities of words, and to point out the differentsignifications of terms apparently, but not really, equivalent.
In June, he says-- "I DARE NOT fully enter into ALL the important significations of these positions and configurations.
Again, as in all languages largely monosyllabic, there are many significations attached to one word, and these often widely different.
Buenaventura, in his Grammar, enumerates sixteen different significations of the particle il.
The meanings of such verses depend upon the grammatical significations of certain words that are used.
None else than thee, O Lord, is competent to explain the significations of those names.
The terms infinite and absolute will, of necessity, then, when applied to him, have entirely different significationsfrom what they will when applied to Space and Time.
Apart from this parable two distinct significationsmay be attributed to the analogy, both alike true in fact, and both alike adopted in the Scriptures.
Of these, as far as I know, the different and opposite figurative significations of the serpent are the most striking and appropriate.
In a woman thesignifications of signs are reversed.
In Sanskrit Sankára, a word which has various significations but the primary meaning of which is the act of seizing.
Notwithstanding of this, we are not against outwardsignifications of honour.
Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significationsof honour.
Now, when you take words in so real and deep significations in your own matters, what gross delusion is it, that you take them in the slightest and emptiest meaning in those things that relate to God?
All which names being taken from the creatures, and so having significations suited to our imperfections, they must needs come infinitely short of him, and so our apprehensions of them.
The main ideas of his philosophy may easily be recognized from this work, which possesses many difficulties for this reason in particular, that in it the pagan gods are considered, and philosophic significations derived from them.
One of the old significations of this word appears to have been easily moving, which is evidently the sense required in this place.
The first attempt should be to ascertain the respective significations of the words concent and consent, which can only be effected by an attention to their Latin etymology.
This word is used in the various significations of a riotous noise, a drunken debauch, and a large portion of liquor.
There are, besides, other significationsof the word wassel that deserve to be noticed.
Before discussing its signification and probable origin we will give the significations which have been suggested of the different names of the day.
Would such a catalogue of significations placed to the word ben, a son, be legitimate or truthful?
But, do these words acquire new significations from this figurative use of them?
He adds, “Assuming that all these significations are ultimately deducible from one and the same root, we see at once the extent to which metaphor must have been at work.
We are to act practically--according to the literality of the legal, implied, figurative, allegorical significations of the Great National Compact under a legitimate construction.
We were next favored with a discussion on the different significations of the word gorstchwzyb; which, rendered into English, means "eh!
That any doubtful significations in this protocol shall be interpreted, as near as may be, in favor of both parties.
In the old specimens of stained glass, we find thesesignifications scrupulously attended to.
The instructions for the mechanical part of the work are given on the authority of experience, while the significations of colours and emblems have been carefully collected from larger and standard publications.
That finally the remainder gradually lost the descriptive significations at first attached to them, and acquired the character of mere arbitrary or conventional names!
He will express a phrase in a word, and he will qualify the meaning of an entire sentence by a syllable; he will even convey different significations by the simplest inflections of the voice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "significations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
