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Example sentences for: signified
How can you use “signified” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
While assuring other nations that the vote signified no change in America's commitment to nonproliferation, he told Americans that arms control had suffered a disastrous setback and that the United States was withdrawing from the world.
"Jesuitical" originally signified "of or pertaining to the Jesuits; belonging to the Society of Jesus; Jesuit" ( OED , again), the Jesuits being the Roman Catholic clerical order founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 as an intellectual bulwark against the Reformation.
However, in German, French, and Dutch, pony (or pony hair ) has always signified that hairstyle, even long before the ponytail came into fashion.
"Talmudic" originally signified nothing more than "of or pertaining to the Talmud" ( Oxford English Dictionary ), the Talmud being the postbiblical Rabbinic code of Jewish laws and interpretations that is the source of authority in Orthodox Judaism.
This led to civil war and the despotic rule of Octavian, nephew and heir of Julius Caesar whose new title of Augustus Caesar signified the collapse of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire in 27 b.c.