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Signed

adjective

Having a handwritten signature.

Used of the language of the deaf. Synonyms: gestural, sign, sign-language.

Sign

verb

(past & past part. signed; pres. part. signing)

Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on). Synonym: subscribe. "Please sign here"

Approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation. Synonym: ratify. "Have you signed your contract yet?"

Be engaged by a written agreement. "The soprano signed to sing the new opera"

Engage by written agreement. Synonyms: contract, sign on, sign up.

Communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs. Synonyms: signal, signalise, signalize. "The diner signaled the waiters to bring the menu"

Place signs, as along a road. "This road has been signed"

Communicate in sign language.

Make the sign of the cross over someone in order to call on God for protection; consecrate. Synonym: bless.

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"Signed" Quotes from Famous Books

... innate vices of the Arabs. It is for this reason they never stir from their tents unarmed. They never make any agreements in writing, well assured that he who receives an obligation would poignard him to whom he signed it, to cancel his debt; and therefore they always carry hung to their neck, a little leather purse, in which they carry about with them whatever they consider as precious. Although they keep nothing in their tents under ...

— Perils and Captivity • Charlotte-Adelaide [nee Picard] Dard

... sheet of paper towards me, wrote to Dr. Willoughby alleging that I was a very absent-minded man, and would be glad of his pamphlet, adding that my special hobby was the collecting of first editions. I then signed myself, 'Alport Webster, ...

— The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont • Robert Barr

... as ever to surmount the natural revolt of our minds against the introduction of the supernatural into life. The peau de chagrin is the modern substitute for the old-fashioned parchment on which contracts were signed with the devil. M. Valentin, its possessor, is a Faust of the boulevards; but our prejudices are softened by the circumstance that the peau de chagrin has a false air of scientific authenticity. It is discovered by a gentleman who spends a spare half-hour before committing suicide in an ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

... his fidelity. She is pictured to him as the paragon of beauty and excellence, but he is never allowed to see her, speak to her, or write to her, should she know how to write. His mother or aunt may see her or bring reports, but he does not see her until the wedding contract is signed and the bride is brought to ...

— The Women of the Arabs • Henry Harris Jessup

... person and tastefully attired in a loose dressing gown of flowered silk, alternated between giving sharp directions to the perspiring workers and venting her abundant wrath and disappointment upon the chief clerk, as with evident reluctance she filled one of a number of signed checks to cover the hotel expenses of herself and servants for a period of three weeks, although they had arrived only the day before and, on account of the stifling heat, were leaving on the night express for Lucerne. The clerk ...

— Carmen Ariza • Charles Francis Stocking

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