significative
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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
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
The second class may be termed significative, being imposed to distinguish their bearers from others by some quality.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Thomas W. Allies
The Quakers, in reply to this, would observe, that they use the word friend, as significative of their own union, and, when they speak to others, as significative of their Christian relation to one another.
From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Thomas Clarkson
