Now the whole Chinese language consists in reality of about four hundred words, or significative sounds, all monosyllabic.
Hence the possible number of words is extremely small, and the number of significative sounds in the Chinese language is said to be no more than 450.
Converse with each other by significative glances.
And the Woman's Incurvity to the Earth is, they say, significative of the same Thing with the Unfruitfulness of the Figtree.
Now there is apparently a significative coincidence between the establishment of the aristocratic and oligarchical powers, and the diminution of the prosperity of the state.
Ours have certain mystical significations; theirs not so: for it is no where to be read, that the apostles either practised or prescribed them as significative resemblances of any mystery of the kingdom of God.
According to the Maya, their name is significative of these facts, since KAT or KATAH is a verb that means to place impediments on the road, to come forth and obstruct the passage.
The very name Urkuh seems composed of two Maya words HUK, to make everything, and LUK, mud; he who makes everything of mud; so significative of his building propensities and of the materials used by him.
None agree, however, as to the significative meaning of the name Asshur.
Since the race of man began its course of sin on this earth, nothing has ever been done by it so significative of all bestial, and lower than bestial degradation, as the acts the Indian race in the year that has just passed by.
Neither in the degrees of kindred they were destitute of significative words.
They appear to have besides a common language; for they possess the faculty, by significative gestures and sounds, of communicating their wants and ideas to each other[35].
Conjoined with the word "great," it signifies the ostrich; and when used in connexion with a word significativeof running, it is employed as a general term for all cursorial birds.
On the ground are lying the bodies of some slain enemies, and the Horses are snorting and shaking their heads, significative of their unwillingness to trample on a human being.
That a priest could clear himself upon his own unsubstantiated oath is equally significativeof the respect in which this office was held, as well as showing the degree in which all law was made to shield man and degrade woman.
The ship, or ark,[30] is peculiarly significative of the feminine principle, and wherever found is a reminiscence of the Matriarchate.
For as the old Creation was complete in seven days, so the number next ensuing may well be significative of the new.
Moreover, these offices of divine piety be moral, and significative of future glory.
The Jews of old made a great noise with their significative ordinances, while they lived in the breach of the moral law, but their practice of significative ordinances could not save them from the judgment and displeasure of their God.
John 3:4) For I am convicted of the law as a transgressor, and so concluded to be one that loveth not Christ, though I make a noise of my obedience to Christ, and of my partaking of his significative ordinances.
For sin is the transgression of that, and it availeth not to vaunt that I am a saint and under this or that significative ordinance, if I live in' the transgression of the law.
They could frequent the temple, keep their feasts, slay their sacrifices, and be mighty apt about all their significative things.
This house of the forest of Lebanon was therefore a significative thing, wisely built and fit for the purpose for which it was designed, which was to show what afterward would be the state of the church in the wilderness.
I will therefore take it for granted that the house of the forest of Lebanon is a significative thing, yea, a figure of the church, as the temple at Jerusalem was, though not under the same consideration.
Hence by its very name temperance is most significative of the good of reason to which it belongs to moderate and temper evil desires.
And another prophecy is called denunciation, which is significative of God's disapproval.
Now it is the experience of all that dreams are significative of the future.
I have it from very good authority," replied Cloten, with a significative wink of the eye towards that part of the room where Emily was standing in conversation with Helen.
As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.
Nor are the little curves, thus significativeof trees, laid on at random.
The sensible elements of the sacraments are called words by way of a certain likeness, in so far as they partake of a certain significative power, which resides principally in the very words, as stated above.
