Which preposition to use with signify

to Occurrences 105%

Irving that it was accident, & not Intention,' he at once replied: 'As Lieutenant Colonel Irving has signified to you that the Part of my Conduct you think worthy of your Reprehension happened by Accident let him explain his reasons for so doing.

in Occurrences 39%

Brenin, according to Adelung, in his Mithridates, signifies in the language of Wales and Lower Brittany a king.

by Occurrences 9%

The man drove his spurs into the loins of his horse, and in an instant was by the side of his master, which he signified by raising his hand to his cap with the palm opening outward.

of Occurrences 4%

At this sitting a due sense was signified of the services of Mr. Ramsay, and a desire of his friendly communications when convenient.

unto Occurrences 3%

"No," said I; "and I signified unto your highness from the beginning, that I would not contend with any one."

for Occurrences 3%

" "What does it signify for how long?

with Occurrences 3%

more than once issued from her lips; and this expression always signified with the young lady in question"indeed!""really!""you think that's mighty fine!"or some other phrase indicative of scorn and defiance.

from Occurrences 2%

"A sacrament is the corporeal or material element set out sensibly, representing from its similitude, signifying from its institution, and containing from its sanctification, some invisible and spiritual grace.

like Occurrences 2%

The termination ly signifies like. 6.

at Occurrences 2%

Similarly criticism, censure, and doom, all of them signifying at first mere judgment, have comethe first in popular, the other two in universal, usageto stand for adverse judgment.

on Occurrences 2%

1. A, as an English prefix, signifies on, in, at, or to: as in a-board, a-shore, a-foot, a-bed, a-soak, a-tilt, a-slant, a-far, a-field; which are equal to the phrases, on board, on shore, on foot, in bed, in soak, at tilt, at slant, to a distance, to the fields.

without Occurrences 1%

"Go," she said, or rather signified without speaking.

against Occurrences 1%

By the use of the prefix counter, signifying against or opposite: as, attraction, counter-attraction; bond, counter-bond; current, counter-current; movement, counter-movement.

among Occurrences 1%

The word instruction thereafter signified among the southerners a procedure quite different from what the term meant in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Negroes were taught to read and write that they might learn the truth for themselves.

near Occurrences 1%

The Hans, or Hanseatic League, is very ancient, some would derive the word from hand, because they of the society plight their faith by that action; others derive it from Hansa, which in the Gothic tongue is council; others would have it come from Hander see, which signifies near or upon the sea, and this passeth for the best etymology, because their towns are all seated so, or upon some navigable river near the sea.

than Occurrences 1%

Any persons whom it could please have no better notion of what the words referred to signify than of the meaning of apsides and asymptotes.

through Occurrences 1%

In fine they exercised unlimited judicial power, save in so far as they were checked by the divine interference usually signified through some prophet.

under Occurrences 1%

" Henry knew too well what the verb "to see" signified under the circumstances, and the day passed in such apprehensive gloom that it was a positive relief, when evening had at last come, to feel a walking-cane about him, at once more snaky and more notched than any previously applied to his stubborn young frame.

vnto Occurrences 1%

And being in his couen at Vdene in the prouince of Padua, the tenth day after the foresayd vision, hauing receiued the Communion, and preparing himselfe vnto God, yea, being strong and sound of body, hee happily rested in the Lord; whose sacred departure was signified vnto the Pope aforesaid, vnder the hand of the publique notary in these words following.

above Occurrences 1%

either as signifying above probability, or above certainty: and in that large sense also, CONTRARY TO REASON, is, I suppose, sometimes taken. 24.

Which preposition to use with  signify