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                    "description": "signĭfĭcātĭo (noun F) : id..\n* A pointing out, indicating, denoting, signifying; an expression, indication, mark, sign, token, = indicium, signum, ἐπισημασία, etc. (freq. and class.).\n* Absol.: gestus sententiam non demonstratione sed significatione declarans,Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: aliquem nutu significationeque appellare,id. Fam. 1, 9, 20: ignibus significatione factā. Caes. B. G.  2, 33: significatione per castella fumo factā,id. B. C. 3, 65; id. B. G. 7, 81.—With subj. gen.: ex significatione Gallorum,Caes. B. G. 7, 12 fin.: litterarum,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7.\n* In partic.\n* With object-clause (very rare): ex quibus magna significatio fit, non adesse constantiam,Cic. Off. 1, 36, 131.—Plur.: multas nec dubias significationes saepe jecit: ne reliquis quidem se parsurum senatoribus,Suet. Ner. 37.\n* Pregn., like the Gr. ἐπισημασία, a sign or token of assent, an expression of approbation, applause: populi judiciis atque omni significatione florere,Cic. Sest. 49, 105; cf. id. ib. 57, 122; 59, 127: ut ex ipsā significatione potuit cognosci,Caes. B. C. 1, 86.— Plur., Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 14, § 42: significationibus acclamationibus multitudinis,Liv. 31, 15, 2 (corresp. to assentatio).\n* Also, like ἐπισημασία, a sign, token, foretoken, prognostic of the weather (Plinian): est et aquarum significatio, etc.... caeli quidem murmur non dubiam habet significationem. Praesagiunt et animalia,Plin. 18, 35, 85, § 359 sq.\n* In rhet. lang., significance, emphasis: significatio est, quae plus in suspicione relinquit, quam positum est in oratione,Auct. Her. 4, 53, 67; Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 203; id. Or. 40, 139; Quint. 9, 2, 3 (as a transl. of the Gr. ἔμφασις).\n* In gram., meaning, sense, import, signification of a word or phrase: verbi,Varr. L. L. 9, § 40 Müll.: scripti,Cic. Part. Or. 31, 108; cf. id. ib. 38, 132: est igitur tropus sermo a naturali et principali significatione translatus ad aliam,Quint. 9, 1, 4: ejusdem verbi contraria significatio,id. 9, 3, 68: voces eaedem diversā in significatione ponuntur,id. 9, 3, 69: verborum,id. 10, 1, 10: latens,id. 10, 1, 90: propriae,Gell. 12, 13, 2.—So the titles of the lexical works of Aelius Gallus, Verrius Flaccus, Festus, etc.: De verborum Significatione or Significationibus.\n* Meaning, intent: duas significationes habet propositio vestra,includes two assertions,Sen. Ep. 87, 28."
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