consignify

English

Etymology

con- +‎ signify

Verb

consignify (third-person singular simple present consignifies, present participle consignifying, simple past and past participle consignified)

  1. To signify or denote in combination with something else.
    • 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:
      The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “consignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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