significavitEtymologyBorrowed from Latin significāvit (“he has signified”), from significāre (“to signify”).nounA 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.“the Kings Courts can receive Significavits from none but the person to whom (if need be) they may write to discharge the Prisoner”