significative
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They have likewise a great many significative compositions in their verses.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
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 Le Plongeon, Augustus
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 Burckhardt, Jacob
As long as in these sesquipedalian compounds, the significative root remains distinct, they belong to the agglutinative stage; as soon as it is absorbed by the terminations, they belong to the inflectional stage.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
These ceremonies used in the cleansing of a leper, were mysterious and very significative.
From The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision by
