indicatory
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She took them mechanically and began to draw them on... the cryptic sign of the cleaner on the wrist hem was now to her indicatory of her submerged estate.
From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Post, Melville Davisson
An indicatory instrument, showing by the virtue of a stone the degrees of declination from the horizon of each several latitude.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
Regarded in this indicatory light, the battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis—in itself so curious—may well enlist our interest.
From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman
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
There would seem to be something singularly indicatory I in this engagement.
From Israel Potter by Melville, Herman
