rare. [ad. med.L. consignificātiōn-em (Petrus Hispanus c. 1250), n. of action from consignificāre to CONSIGNIFY.] Joint signification; secondary meaning, connotation; conjoint signification.
1701. Beverley, Glory of Grace, 12. Commonness hath always a consignification of Impurity.
1780. Harris, Philol. Inq., III. x. Wks. (1841), 511. He calls the additional denoting of time by a truly philosophic word, a consignification.
1786. H. Tooke, Purley (1798), I. 321. He would tell me that with was a Preposition … and that it had no meaning of its own, but only a connotation or consignification.
