significative
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They could frequent the temple, keep their feasts, slay their sacrifices, and be mighty apt about all their significative things.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
But in course of time these words have lost their force—their meaning has been forgotten—and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.
From History of Phoenicia by George Rawlinson
I perceived the essence of their delight and gratification, which arose chiefly from this, that all things and each thing they heard from the Word were representative and significative of heavenly and spiritual things.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by John Ager
They have likewise a great many significative compositions in their verses.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
These sculptures of St. Zeno are, however, quite quiet and tame compared with those of St. Michele of Pavia, which are designed also in a somewhat gloomier mood; significative, as I think, of indigestion.
From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by John Ruskin
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