ppl. a. (UN-1 10.)
1665. J. Sergeant, Sure Footing, Ep. Ded. They carry the war out of the bounds of Science … and transfer it to a kind of Spatium Imaginarium of Fancy and unsignifying sounds.
a. 1680. Glanvill, in Disc., etc. (1681), 407. Such a Faith as this is that which St. James writes so earnestly against, as dead, and unsignifying (of it self alone) to the purpose of Justification.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. iii. (1840), 65. Muttering over them some unsignifying significations.
1884. Encycl. Brit., XVII. 86/1. A tune is named generally after some place, as ‘York,’… or by some other unsignifying word.
