indicatory

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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

The shape described here in Smriti allows us to infer a Sruti passage on which the Smriti rests, and thus constitutes an inference, i.e. a sign indicatory of the word 'Vaisvânara' denoting the highest Lord.

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

But how could the various kinds of fluid, for instance, be represented in these indicatory pictures?

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

Trendon pointed to a small bit of wood rather neatly carved to the shape of an indicatory finger, and lashed to the staff, at the height of a man's face.

From The Mystery by White, Stewart Edward

The print," he continued, "was the first confirmation of evidence, but it was not the first indicatory sign.

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