meaning

I noun acceptation, connotation, content, definition, denotation, drift, explanation, idea, import, interpretation, purport, semantics, semasiology, sense, sententia, significance, significatio, signification, substance, tenor, text, vis associated concepts: plain meaning, secondary meaning foreign phrases:

- Primo excutienda est verbi vis, ne sermonis vitio obstruatur oratio, slve lex sine argumentis. — The force of a word should be ascertained in the beginning, lest the sentence be destroyed by the fault of expression, or the law be without reason

- Sensus verborum est anima legis. — The meaning of words is the spirit of the law

- In testamentis ratio tacita non debet considerari, sed verba solum spectari debent; adeo per divinationem mends a verbis recedere durum est — In wills an unexpressed intention ought not to be considered, but the words alone ought to be regarded, for it is difficult to recede from the words by guessing at their intention.

II index connotation, consequence (significance), construction, contents, context, definition, design (intent), essence, explanation, gist (substance), import, intent, main point, paraphrase, purview, significance, signification, spirit, substance (essential nature), sum (tally), tenor