Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The zodiac.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Bearing signs.

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  • adjective obsolete Bearing signs.

Etymologies

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Latin, from signum sign + ferre to bear.

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Examples

  • The word "signifer" seems to favour the reading I have preferred; and Dean Merivale and

    Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars 39-65 Lucan

  • Fish fauna includes lake whitefish Coregonus commersoni, cutthroat trout Salmo clarki, rainbow trout S. gairdnerii, lake trout Salvelinus namaycush, bull trout Salvelinus confluentus and Arctic grayling Thymallus signifer.

    Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada 2008

  • Arctic grayling Thymallus arcticus signifer, Dolly Varden trout Salvelinus alpinus malma and lake trout Salvelinus namaycush are common in the streams that flow into the Nahanni and Flat Rivers.

    Nahanni National Park Reserve, Canada 2008

  • Sic tanquam signifer constitutus Assyrios vna cum Anglico exercitu petijt, ac suum non sine laude pr鎠titit officiuin.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Only one witness ever come back to tell us it were the dragon for certain as ate 'em, or even was they ate, and that man was our signifer Drusus Llyr, what no one knew his parents was first cousins 'til it was too late, and he died stark bonkers that very night.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • Only one witness ever come back to tell us it were the dragon for certain as ate 'em, or even was they ate, and that man was our signifer Drusus Llyr, what no one knew his parents was first cousins 'til it was too late, and he died stark bonkers that very night.

    Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1991

  • The final vowel of the stem of the first member of the compound often appears as ĭ where we should expect ŏ or ă; sometimes it is dropped altogether, and in case of consonant stems ĭ is often inserted; as, -- signifer, _standard-bearer_; tubicen, _trumpeter_; magnanimus, _high-minded_; mātricīda, _matricide_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Rex gloriae, libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu: libera eas de ore leonis, ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscurum: sed signifer sanctus Michael repraesentet eas in lumen sanctam:

    The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book Various

  • _, 'Paene signifer Pisonianae coniurationis extitit.'

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Francisco Cellino Florentino, qui quod in teneris annis ad Ioannem Medicem ducem plures victorias retulit et signifer fuit, facile documentum dedit quantæ fortitudinis et consilii vir futurus erat, ni crudelis fati archibuso transfossus, quinto ætatis lustro jaceret, Benvenutus frater posuit.

    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

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