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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:

The approval signified reasonable assurance that the travel actually took place and that the claimed amounts were reasonable.
The comparison signified that two ideas or objects did not go together at all, because if someone hits you on the eye with the fist, it would, obviously, hurt very much.
"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.
Magic is signified by levitating people à la Mary Poppins , playing wind-chimes on the soundtrack or flooding a scene with dry ice" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). Roger Ebert (who manages to work the odd sexual euphemism "the old rumpy-pumpy" into his review for the second time in three months) defends the movie as fun fluff: "The movie is as light as a soufflé, as fleeting as a breath of pumpkin pie on the breeze from a widow's window" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). (This fan site has loads of pictures of the lovely Miss Gellar.)
"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.