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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
ignify .
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Examples
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Stuap (ignifies to check \ as children taSxXy f/teaped\ herbs and ivxitsfneaped with cold weather.
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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Ara feems to be a corruption from Airther, Oirther or Artha, and Ar which (ignifies the eaft or eaft - ern.
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Nepbejbt as a verb, (ignifies to breathe; and, as a fubftan - five, an agent, a breather, « frame breathed in.
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Nor am I far from being inclined to think, tint the word Tyrannus, for which the Lexicon-writ - ers a0ign no theme or root, may have had it Id the Celtic, particularly in the word Tir, which irr tht - Celto-Ibernian language (ignifies a buge country or tradt of land, comprehending fevenl towns, regioris and diftrids; fo that Tyrannus was the fupreme king or monarch of tlie whole,
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The fourth divifion is named Dae, or Adae, i.e. fcience, whence Adhm, human knowledge; hence Dae, Adae, (ignifies a man, becaufe he is the mofl perfedt of God's creation on earth.
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This is confirmed by the fenfe in which the term is ufed in geometry, where it (ignifies an equality of ratios.
The Monthly Review 1786
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