Category:Significavit

Sig`ni*fi*ca"vit, n. Etym: [l., (he) has signified, perf. ind. of Significare to signify.] (eng. Eccl. Law)

Defn: formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificate Given by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the space Of forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himself To the authority of the church. Crabb.