consignify

To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.

Verb

  1. To signify or denote in combination with something else; to have a meaning when combined with something else.
    • spirits are angels, that is to say messengers: all which words do consignify locality; and locality is dimension; and whatsoever hath dimension, is body, be it never so subtile. - 1640, Thomas Hobbbes, The Elements of...
    • The cipher […] only serves to connote and consignify, and to change the value or the figures. - 1786, John Horne Tooke, Epea Pteroenta: or The Diversions of Purley, Part 1:

Origin

From con- + signify.

Forms

consignifies consignifying consignified

Derived

consignification