signify

verb5

1. •
   To show one’s intentions with a sign etc.; to indicate, announce, or portend.

   • I’ll to the king; and signify to him / That thus I have resign’d my charge to you. — 1593
2. •
   To mean; to betoken.

   • Life’s […] a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing. — 1606
3. •
   To give (something) a meaning or an importance.
4. •
   To make a difference; to matter (in negative or interrogative expressions).

   • To be but in the company of those we love, satisfies us: it does not signify whether we speak to ’em or not, whether we think on them or on indifferent things. To be near ’em is all. — 1699
5. •
   To create a sign out of something.