indicate
verb (used with object)
indicatory
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a word derived from
indicate.
Example Sentences
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Regarded in this indicatory light, the battle between the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis—in itself so curious—may well enlist our interest.
From Israel Potter by Herman Melville
To his astonishment, Waldemar noted that his friend's indicatory finger shook a little.
From Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams
These peremptory tripartite brethren arrived at Greenwich, wishing to aggrandize themselves by indulging in exemplary relaxation, indicatory of implacable detestation of integral tergiversation and exoteric intrigue.
From 1001 Questions and Answers on Orthography and Reading by B. A. Hathaway
The shape described here in Smriti allows us to infer a Sruti passage on which the Smriti rests, and thus constitutes an inference, i.e. a sign indicatory of the word 'Vaisvânara' denoting the highest Lord.
From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 by George Thibaut
Thus from actual imitative pictures we arrive at indicatory pictures.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
