the thing indicated

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She is specialized for it; it is the thing indicated.

From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 2, April 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Goldman, Emma

The Maya name of the thing indicated is uncertain, though I am inclined to believe Piz, as given in the work alluded to, is correct.

From Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372 by Thomas, Cyrus

This is, I say, a taking of the indication for the thing indicated.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

If ikonomatic, the name of the thing indicated had l as its chief element.

From Day Symbols of the Maya Year Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1894-1895, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1897, pages 199-266. by Thomas, Cyrus

If the sound of the words actually imitates the sound of the thing indicated, the effect is called Onomatopoeia.

From A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington