semiotic

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek σημειωτικός (sēmeiōtikós, “observant of signs”), ultimately derived from σῆμα (sêma, “mark, sign”). Compare semiotics.

1. Of or relating to semiotics or to semantics.

   “Applying a meme beyond its semiotic used-by date is undesirable, lowering status.”

   “Especially when applying [the Lemon test] as a bar examiner might expect would have yielded glaringly ahistorical or politically inconvenient results, [the Supreme Court] regularly found reasons – longstanding historical practice, for example, or semiotic speculations about the social meanings of government actions to hypothetical “reasonable observers” – not to.”

2. symptomalogical (of or relating to the signs or symptoms of diseases)