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connotative, a.|kəˈnəʊtətɪv|
[ad. med.L. connotātīv-us, f. connotāt-, ppl. stem of connotāre to connote.
Nomen connotativum, terminus connotativus were used by Occam a 1347: ‘Nomen autem connotativum est illud quod significat aliquid primario et aliquid secundario’ (Prantl III. 364).]
1. Having the quality of connoting; pertaining to connotation, or to an additional or implied signification.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 126 Album, although in a formall signification of the thing designd it expresse a certain Ens per se, yet..the formall and materiall or connotatiue signification, of it, is, it's Ens per accidens. c1630Jackson Creed v. xiii. Wks. IV. 95 Which definition..is not essential, but causal or connotative. 1638Ibid. ix. xiii. Wks. VIII. 263 Collateral or connotative imprecations of divine power. 1846Grote Greece i. xvi. I. 479 The word mythe..signified simply a statement or current narrative, without any connotative implication either of truth or falsehood. 1866J. H. Newman Let. Pusey 14 Secondary, symbolical, connotative senses of Scripture.
2. Logic. connotative term: according to J. S. Mill, a term or word which, while it denotes (or is predicated of) a subject, also connotes or indicates its attributes.
In the scholastic and later logic a connotative, as distinguished from an absolute, term was one which primarily signified an attribute and secondarily a subject. In the logic of J. S. Mill this usage is inverted; the subject is ‘denoted’, the attribute ‘connoted’. Later still, the terms ‘denotation’ and ‘connotation’ have been used in a sense synonymous with logical ‘extension’ and ‘intension’ (cf. quot. 1876 in connotation 2, and Fowler Deduct. Logic ii. (1887) 19).
1829Jas. Mill Hum. Mind (1878) I. ix. 306 Friend is a concrete, connotative term..Its connotation is dropped by another mark, the syllable -ship; thus friendship. 1846J. S. Mill Logic i. ii. §5 A connotative term is one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute. 1872H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. II. vi. vi. 60 The subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms. 1887Fowler Deduct. Log. ii. 19 In the scholastic logic, what I have called attributives [i.e. adjectives and participles used adjectively] are alone recognised as connotative terms. |