significative
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Other nations were willing to spend vast sums of money on these shows, but in Italy alone do we find an artistic method of treatment which arranged the processions as a harmonious and significative whole.
From The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
These also are no less frequent and significative.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
Hence the possible number of words is extremely small, and the number of significative sounds in the Chinese language is said to be no more than 450.
From Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I Essays on the Science of Religion by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
According to the Maya, their name is significative of these facts, since Kat or Katah is a verb that means to place impediments on the road, to come forth and obstruct the passage.
From Vestiges of the Mayas or, Facts Tending to Prove that Communications and Intimate Relations Must Have Existed, in very Remote Times, Between the Inhabitants of Mayab and Those of Asia and Africa by Augustus Le Plongeon
Nor are the little curves, thus significative of trees, laid on at random.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
