a. rare. [See CONSIGNIFY and SIGNIFICANT.]
1. Signifying in addition or secondarily.
1625. Gill, Sacr. Philos., viii. 148. So the [Hebrew] words with their consignificant numbers are taken.
2. Having the same signification.
a. 1641. Spelman, Feuds & Tenures, II. 7 (R.). But I find not one of those words or any consignificant or equivalent to them, in all our Saxon laws.
3. Conjointly significant; having a meaning in combination.
1612. J. Cotta, Short Discov., 3. Some significant by themselues, some consignificant with others.
1751. Harris, Hermes, I. iii. Wks. (1841), 125, note. These parts of speech are always consignificant, that is, are only significant when associated to something else.
