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missignify

verb

Etymology

From mis- + signify.

  1. derived from significare
  2. derived from signifier
  3. inherited from signifien
  4. prefixed as missignify — “mis + signify”

Definitions

  1. To signify falsely

    To signify falsely; to give the appearance of something that is not true.

    • It was unconsciounable that the sign should missignify, the costume deceive.
    • These are, then, (dis) simulators, subjects who missignify, who abuse signs for their own pleasure.
    • But they are signs which, on the one hand, missignify what causes them and, on the other, cause that which, as signs, they deny.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA