significate
English
Etymology
Latin significatus, past participle of significare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkət/
Noun
significate (plural significates)
- (logic) One of several things signified by a common term.
- 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:
- “Britain is an island;” “all tyrants are miserable; ” “no miser is rich; ” are universal propositions, and their subjects are therefore said to be distrubted. being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its Significates: but, “some islands are fertile;” “all tyrants are not assassinated;" are Particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their Significates
Related terms
References
“significate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Interlingua
Italian
Verb
significate
- inflection of significare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Latin
Spanish
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