| 单词 | signation |
| 释义 | signation Now rare.|sɪgˈneɪʃən|
[ad. late L. signātiōn-em, noun of action f. signāre to sign.]
1. The action of signing with the cross, or of marking with a seal.
1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. i. ii. 76 Whence is the Vnction called signation, consignation, obsignation (with the like) but from the Crosse? 1637C. Dow Answ. H. Burton 207 The blessed Eucharist wherein they acknowledge..no other exhibition than by way of signation or obsignation. 1679C. Nesse Antichrist 13 John makes no mention of him in the signation of the tribes. 1883Ch. Times XXI. 953/1 The Greek signation with the Cross is made from right to left.
†b. The action of marking in a particular way, or the fact of being so marked. Obs.
1659H. More Immort. Soul iii. iii. 7 Those other Examples of the Signation of the Fœtus from the Mothers' Fancy, which Fienus rejecteth.
†2. A distinctive mark. = signature n. 4. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 100 It somewhat resembles an horseshooe, which..Baptista Porta hath thought too low a signation, and raised the same unto a Lunarie representation. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. b j, The shels of Sea⁓snails having the signation of long ears. |
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