"significavit" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Latin\n, (he) has signified, perf. ind. of significare (“to signify”).",
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          "text": "the Kings Courts can receive Significavits from none but the person to whom (if need be) they may write to discharge the Prisoner",
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        "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."
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        "(UK, law, historical) 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."
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