significative

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Three of them could henceforth be considered only as significative of the forms in which all matter exists.

From Familiar Letters on Chemistry by Liebig, Justus, Freiherr von

Nor are the little curves, thus significative of trees, laid on at random.

From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by Ruskin, John

The E is the prefix significative of a past time.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson

And the less musical but wonderfully significative fourth, stanza— Plagas sicut Thomas non intueor, Deum tamen meum te confiteor, Fac me tibi semper magis credere, In te spem habere, te diligere.

From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

But in course of time these words have lost their force—their meaning has been forgotten—and they have come to be mere proper names, designative but not significative.

From History of Phoenicia by Rawlinson, George