The other division of the Cabala contains the knowledge of things more sublime, as of divine and angelical powers, the contemplation of sacred names and characters; being a certain kind of symbolical theology, in which the letters, figures, numbers, names, points, lines, accents, etc. are esteemed to contain the significations of most profound things and wonderful mysteries.

Many significations have been attached to the word miracle, both by the ancients and moderns.

I was awe-struck, and believed those significations to be something more than elemental fires.

Mary was the very soul of charity in all its significations, and this Gardiner knew.

Several significations of the word Essence.

But since the essences of things are thought by some (and not without reason) to be wholly unknown, it may not be amiss to consider the several significations of the word ESSENCE.

This yet is not usually done; but men talk to one another, and dispute in words, whose meaning is not agreed between them, out of a mistake that the significations of common words are certainly established, and the precise ideas they stand for perfectly known; and that it is a shame to be ignorant of them.

Both which suppositions are false, no names of complex ideas having so settled determined significations, that they are constantly used for the same precise ideas.

It is impossible that men should ever truly seek or certainly discover the agreement or disagreement of ideas themselves, whilst their thoughts flutter about, or stick only in sounds of doubtful and uncertain significations.

I answer, CHANGELINGS; which is as good a word to signify something different from the signification of MAN or BEAST, as the names man and beast are to have significations different one from the other.

When a raven has croaked inauspiciously, let not the appearance hurry you away with it; but straightway make a distinction in your mind and say, None of these things is signified to me, but either to my poor body, or to my small property, or to my reputation, or to my children, or to my wife: but to me all significations are auspicious if I choose.

The presumption and boldness of the sophists and School-divines is a very ungodly thing, which some of the Fathers also approved of and extolled; namely of spiritual significations in the Holy Scripture, whereby she is pitifully tattered and torn in pieces.

the sins rhubarb is Jesus Christ, &c. Who seeth not here (said Luther) that such significations are mere juggling tricks?

In other words, "his instruction must be an entirely different thing from the training of the Caucasian," in regard to whom "the term education had widely different significations."

To put one for the other, is therefore, in general, to put one meaning for an other: "A daughter of a poor man""The daughter of the poor man""A daughter of the poor man"and, "The daughter of a poor man," are four phrases which certainly have four different and distinct significations.

Yet I cannot think it by any means a commendable practice, thus to jumble together different forms; and indeed it is certainly better, as the two modes of expression have different significations, to confine each to its distinct and proper use, agreeably to Dr. Crombie's rule, even when no mistake could arise from interchanging them.

45.The two modes of expression which these grammarians would thus apply constantly to different uses, on the supposition that they have always different significations, are the same that Lindley Murray and his copyists suppose to be generally equivalent, and concerning which it is merely admitted by the latter, that they do "not in every instance convey the same meaning."

"Notwithstanding of this, we are not against outward significations of honour.

Hebrew letters, some account of; names, characters, and significations of whether they are, or are not, all consonants, long a subject of dispute The Hebrew names for the months, were prop.

4 and the formula R = B + Gs/(G + s) + r would serve for the total resistance, R, of an electric circuit, upon giving the letters the significations adopted.

The word mock is used in our language in both these significations,in the secondary sense when it refers to men's hopes or expectations,as, to mock one's hopes, that is, to delude or disappoint one's expectations.

At length, in 1755, appeared the two massive folios, each 17 inches long, 10 inches wide, and 3-1/2 inches thick, entitled 'A | Dictionary | of the | English Language | in which | the Words are deduced from their Originals, | and | illustrated in their different significations | by Examples from the Best Writers.

Hence, with agricultural writers, from the most early times, the varied appearances of the clouds, the nature of the winds, and the changing aspects of the sun and moon, and their several significations, have formed a favourite subject of description and discussion.

The fact, which is a mere accident, that we affix very different significations to the same sound, was unknown to him.

Many names have been given by secret impulse, to denote the effects those persons were to produce; and as most of my fathers affairs were guarded by some special providence, his name and sirname were not without some mysterious significations.