signify

To create a sign out of something.

To give (something) a meaning or an importance.

To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce, or portend.

I’ll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign’d my charge to you.

For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

To mean; to betoken.

Life’s […] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.

Mrs Varden was a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper—a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.

To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).

To be but in the company of those we love, satisfies us: it does not signify whether we speak to ’em or not, whether we think on them or on indifferent things. To be near ’em is all.

VVell ſays I, and are you thus eaſy? ay, ſays ſhe, I can’t help myſelf, vvhat ſignifyes being ſad? If I am hang’d there’s an End of me, ſays ſhe, and avvay ſhe turns Dancing, and Sings as ſhe goes, […]