indicatory

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It was originally a picture-writing, which, like the Egyptian, passed from real pictures to indicatory and symbolic pictures or picture-signs.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

"But," said Marion, "is not the aspect of these peculiarities indicatory of either a natural event or one designed by a human intelligence?"

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson

In the wooded land, especially, it was hopeless to look for any indicatory mark beneath the undergrowth of forty years.

From Patty's Friends by Wells, Carolyn

Hence, it became the practice to place upon barometer scales words indicatory of the weather likely to accompany, or follow, the movements of the mercury; whence the instruments bearing them obtained the name “Weather Glasses.”

From A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility by Negretti, Henry

And thereupon the subsequent passage, 'He who consists of mind, whose body is breath,' &c. states the object of the meditation in words indicatory of the individual soul.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by Thibaut, George