The amount of probability that he had really been the perpetrator of the crime, or the possibility of convicting him of it, would signify comparatively little.
What is more to the purpose, unfortunately, is that it does not signify a straw whether I believe it or not.
In 1654 the Assembly received word that his Highness had decided then to continue Colonel Bennett, of whose good character he had heard, in the execution of his office, until he could further signify his pleasure.
To dream of hearing voices, denotes pleasant reconciliations, if they are calm and pleasing; high-pitched and angry voices, signify disappointments and unfavorable situations.
Ropes in dreams, signify perplexities and complications in affairs, and uncertain love making.
Cots in rows signifyyou will not be alone in trouble, as friends will be afflicted also.
Bald-headed babies signify a happy home, a loving companion, and obedient children.
Young or half grown chickens, signify fortunate enterprises, but to make them so you will have to exert your physical strength.
After all, girl, so that men see us not, what signify God and the saints seeing us?
Seeing him so ready, Gerard charged him also with a short, cold letter to his parents; and in it he drew hastily with his pen two hands grasping each other, to signify farewell.
A part of the meal-offering is burnt on the altar as "a memorial," to signify that God takes notice of and graciously accepts the consecrated fruit of our labours.
The answer to this question is given by the Apostle Paul, who calls attention to the fact that in the Levitical symbolism it was ordained that the consecration of a part should signify the consecration of the whole.
It has a far higher meaning in the ceremony, and a more important duty to perform than merely to signify the admission of the wife into the counsels of the husband.
The bellows may signify his well-meant though ineffectual endeavours to extinguish the fire by wind, which, though it will put out a small flame, will cherish a large one.
The Post Office," painted on a cracked board fastened against the wall, may possiblysignify the office of Postmaster-General being then divided.
The clean handssignify little in a moral sense--however desirable for sanitary and other reasons--unless the heart is also clean.
Besides, it comes to signify little or nothing, as one may count his beads or say his Pater Nosters with no regard to what he is doing.
But forensis does not signify an absent person, i.
The phrase seems to be used here to signify expensive foreign fashions generally.
We use when we wouldsignify that things happen to people which are suitable to them, or which they deserve; as when a dull scholar happens to a stupid or ignorant master, a froward wife to a peevish husband, &c.
This cramp doth signify nothing in effect; None of all your counsels he will now reject, And therefore fear not to make full declaration.
It doesn't signify at all," said Felix, looking round and seeing the faces of his friends on the other side of the bank.
By that word "spectatum" I would wish to signify something more than the mere use of the eyes.
With him the next week or two, with their events, did not signify much; whereas the coming years did signify a great deal.
She did not say that she misdoubted the wisdom of her son's counsels; but it appeared to him that she intended to signify to him that she did so, and he answered her in words that were sore and almost bitter.
That manner of the picking would not signify much, as Madeline thought.
Men, when they invented this term, supposed that nothing entered the mind except by the senses; otherwise would they have used the word "sense" to signify the result of the common faculty of reason?
The dance is supposed to imitate the movements of seals and walrus; and again the spirits signify their pleasure by making the bladders swing backwards and forwards.
When with the growth of the solar theory the deities of Egypt began to be resolved into one another, the title came to signify that attribute of divinity which unified all the rest.
After all, I suppose, it does not much signifyto a man whether he is ugly or not.
There is a want of clearness and coherence in the plot, and the comic part has really no necessary connection with the rest of the piece; but none of that will signify much, or, I think, prevent it from succeeding.
If he'll signify to my daughter that he withdraws from this offer of his, because I'm against it, I'll see that he does uncommon well in the city.
I have come up,' said he, 'to signifymy adhesion to this marriage.
If this goes on about Sophia, it does not signifyfor her, and, though mamma likes London, it is not of real importance.
Atiba eased his own pace slightly, as though tosignify deference.
They all stood awkwardly for a moment, each wondering what the ship would signify for their own future and that of the island.
A signal of three lanterns on the shore below the vigia would signify all-clear.
I should arrange my words, my I rejoice would signifynothing else!
Christian scholars began the investigations, formulated the principles, collected the materials and reared the already splendid fabric of the science of Comparative Religion, because the spirit of Christ which was in them did signify this.
In Korea thousands of trees bedecked with fluttering rags, clinking scraps of tin, metal or stone signify the same thing.
To signify the same also, the priest when entering upon the secret is veiled as it were with the side curtains.
For this reason is the interior sprinkled, to signify that an external ablution profiteth nothing without an internal charity.
Therefore the bishop writeth the alphabet, to signify that he teacheth the pure doctrine of the gospel.
Or else the ball doth signify the world redeemed by the price of the Cross: on which account the cross is placed over it.
Thus the ringing of the bells doth signify the prophets, who foretold the advent of Christ.
At the horns of the altar [Footnote 302] two candlesticks are placed to signify the joy of Jews and Gentiles at the nativity of Christ: which candlesticks, by means of a flint, have their wicks lighted.
Footnote 674] But this vestment ought to be white, to signify that her garments must at all times be pure, that is, her life must be spotless.
But in a Mass of requiem the gospel is not read in that exalted place, but at the altar, to signify that preaching profiteth not the departed.
Then the bishop sprinkleth the whole church inside with the water thrice: tosignify the Church's inward faith in the Trinity: and once outside, to signify the one baptism.
And, my blessed Auroretta, you who are such a hand at calling names, have your servant's permission to call him all the names you can think of that signify an ineffable blunderer on the day when you succeed in freeing yourself from him!
He spoke no word to signify either pleasure or displeasure.
Aurora's eyebrows had with this tried to signify her entire capacity to take care of herself and her own business.
Nor will it signify to say that the President's attorneys could not have proved what they offered to prove.
Victor, seems tosignify the consideration of many things from which a man intends to gather some single truth.
These precious stones, then, and especially that great one, signify the many books and works that he wrote, and they show that he is equal to me in glory save only that in the aureola of Virginity he surpasseth me.
And so devotion is here taken to signify the act of a will so disposed, the act by which a man shows himself prompt in the Divine service.
Probably this is the reason why the term end has been extended from its original sense to signify the object for the attainment of which an intelligent agent acts.
However, despite the disclaimer, the term philosophy soon came to signify wisdom simply, meaning by this the highest and most precious kind of knowledge.
The term philosophia prima has now only an historical interest; and the term theology, used without qualification, is now generally understood tosignify supernatural theology.
But this does not really signify any juxtaposition or superposition of concrete entities.
The category Situs is commonly interpreted to signify the mutual spatial relations or dispositions of the various parts of a body in the place actually occupied by the latter.
