connotativeadj.
/kəˈnəʊtətɪv/ 1. Having the quality of connoting; pertaining to connotation, or to an additional or implied signification.
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connotative1614
consignificant1635
connotational1947
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 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.
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Originall of Vnbeliefe 101 Which definition..is not essentiall but causall or connotatiue.
1638 T. Jackson Treat. Consecration Sonne of God 76 Collaterall or connotative imprecations of divine power.
1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece I. i. xvi. 479 The word mythe..signified simply a statement or current narrative, without any connotative implication either of truth or falsehood.
1866 J. H. Newman Let. to Pusey 14 Secondary, symbolical, connotative senses of Scripture.
2. connotative term n. Logic 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’.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > meaning > [noun] > connotation or connotative term
connotative term1829
connotation1846
the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > connotation > [noun] > connotative term
connotative term1829
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [noun] > connotation
connotation1662
nominal definition1697
connotative term1829
1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. ix. 220 Friend is a concrete, connotative term..Its connotation is dropped by another mark, the syllable -ship; thus friendship.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. ii. §5 A connotative term is one which denotes a subject and implies an attribute.
1855 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. v. 127 The subject and predicate of the major premiss are connotative terms.
1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic ii. 19 In the scholastic logic, what I have called attributives [i.e. adjectives and participles used adjectively] are alone recognised as connotative terms.
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