Sentence examples for properly signified from inspiring English sources
On the other hand, when the names are used only of God as cause, the prefixes may be left off, since the causality of God is already a procession into the differentiation properly signified by each of the different names.
Wyclif divides proper supposition into material, when the term stand for itself or its sound (as it occurs in "'I' is a pronoun" or "'Iohannes' is trisyllabic"), and formal, when the term stands for what it properly signifies.
Suddenly the music seemed to signify properly as mystery.
In anticipation, Newton indicates how to reconcile this with scripture by observing that, if usage determines the meanings of words, then in ordinary discourse (including the Bible) the terms 'time'spaceace'placeand'motion'motion' are properly understood to signify the relative quantities; only in specialized and mathematical contexts do they denote the absolute quantities.
For Isidore of Seville, the nomen was the name of the gens or clan, a group of people with a common ancestor, but for Priscian, Peter Helias and the modistic grammarians, such as Thomas of Erfurt, the nomen was the most properly proper name, that which signified an individual "in an absolute way under the properties which gave him his individuality" as Thomas put it.
He claims that what is signified by abstract terms, i.e., simple forms such as whiteness and fatherhood, properly falls under the categories, whereas what is signified by concrete accidental terms does not.
Immediate experience signified.
I believed it signified nothing.
