Which preposition to use with signification

of Occurrences 188%

Etymology and different signification of the word Feria.

in Occurrences 12%

This word, in its more ample signification in the Greek, denotes a stranger, but properly implies one who receives another, or is himself received at an entertainment.

as Occurrences 8%

The term Remontado explains itself, and has the same signification as Cimarron.

to Occurrences 6%

Quintilian classifies as tropes words or phrases converted from their proper signification to another.

than Occurrences 4%

Besides the imperfection that is naturally in language, and the obscurity and confusion that is so hard to be avoided in the use of words, there are several WILFUL faults and neglects which men are guilty of in this way of communication, whereby they render these signs less clear and distinct in their signification than naturally they need to be. 2.

with Occurrences 3%

6. On the other side, the names of substances, when made use of as they should be, for the ideas men have in their minds, though they carry a clear and determinate signification with them, will not yet serve us to make many universal propositions of whose truth we can be certain.

from Occurrences 2%

Now, since sounds have no natural connexion with our ideas, but have all their signification from the arbitrary imposition of men, the doubtfulness and uncertainty of their signification, which is the imperfection we here are speaking of, has its cause more in the ideas they stand for than in any incapacity there is in one sound more than in another to signify any idea: for in that regard they are all equally perfect.

without Occurrences 2%

It seems to be sufficiently clear that [Greek: thromboi] might be used in this signification without [Greek: aimatos]

by Occurrences 1%

"Now the Definition of a CONJUNCTION is as followsa Part of Speech, void of Signification itself, but so formed as to help Signification by making TWO or more significant Sentences to be ONE significant Sentence.

for Occurrences 1%

Not that it is of any signification for more than uniformity, because, on referring to years antecedent to 1839, the relation between imports of cottons and re-exports, with the places from which imported and to which re-exports took place, is not sensibly disturbed.

Which preposition to use with  signification