signest

Verb

sign (third-person singular simple present signs, present participle signing, simple past and past participle signed)

1. (archaic, transitive) To seal (a document etc.) with an identifying seal or symbol.
   • The Queen signed her letter with the regal signet.
2. (transitive) To mark, to put or leave a mark on.
   • Meantime revolving in his thoughtful mind / The scar, with which his manly knee was sign'd […].1726, Elijah Fenton, The Odyssey of Homer
3. (transitive) To validate or ratify (a document) by writing one's signature on it.
   • Enquire the Iewes house out, giue him this deed, / And let him signe it […].c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
4. (transitive) More generally, to write one's signature on (something) as a means of identification etc.
   • I forgot to sign that letter to my aunt.
5. (reflexive, transitive) To write (one's name) as a signature.
   • Just sign your name at the bottom there.
6. (intransitive) To write one's signature.
   • Please sign on the dotted line.

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