adsignify

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin adsignificare (“to show”). By surface analysis, ad- +‎ signify.

Verb

adsignify (third-person singular simple present adsignifies, present participle adsignifying, simple past and past participle adsignified)

1. (transitive, archaic, rare) To denote additionally.
   • 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta:

     And if it were so , then indeed the word we are now considering , besides the signification of the Verb , must likewise adsignify some Manner and the Present Time

Related terms

• adsignification

References

• “adsignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.