denotationn.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Bii ^v Dyuers wordes, whiche for denotation or signifycation of pluralite doth ende with an s.

1617 G. Webbe Pract. Quietness (ed. 2) iii. 18 A short denotation of that method which wee will obserue in the vnfolding of the same.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Denotation, a marking, a noting.

1659 J. Pearson Expos. Creed (1839) 275 One who was called Ἐπώνυμος, because his name was used for the denotation of that year.

1803 Ld. Eldon in Vesey's Rep. VI. 397 By that denotation of intention the Creditor has a double Fund.

1825 T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. I. vi. 86 The idea of Julius Cæsar's building round towers out of vanity, in denotation of conquest, certainly prevailed in the middle ages.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 97 I had no knowledge of him by any outward denotations.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 47 The thred tripartite hung about their neck as a mysterious denotation of the Trinity.

1657 T. M. Life Satyrical Puppy 39 After many denotations of a troubled spirit, he charmed attention with this speech.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 302 An assertion we are willing to credit as a denotation of effeminacy.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 595 The Germans called an Esquire..knaue, a denotation of no ill qualitie in those dayes.

1645 H. Hammond Of Conscience (new ed.) §4 Mind and conscience are distinguished..that former being properly the denotation of the faculty meerly speculative, or intellectuall; this latter, of the practicall judgement.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxxxix. 12 Annot.) 446/2 Being here a denotation of a particular quarter of the world.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. i. x. 57 To indicate our Idea of a simple Fellow, That he is easily to be seen through: Nor do I believe it a more improper Denotation of a simple Book. View more context for this quotation

1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 341 Time hath brought the word knaue to a denotation of ill qualities.

1692 J. Edwards Farther Enq. Old & New Test. i. 35 But after all that I have said, concerning this so remarkable Etymology and Denotation of the word, I leave every one to his liberty.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 June 2 Can we limit the denotation of the term coffee to the produce of a certain berry?

1893 F. Hall in Nation LVII. 450/1 The term ârya..may have a wider denotation than that which was long attached to it.

1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic I. i. viii. §7 Stripping it of some part of its multifarious denotation, and confining it to objects possessed of some attributes in common, which it may be made to connote.

1866 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic (1887) 22 The larger the denotation or extensive capacity, the smaller is the connotation or intensive capacity.

1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 20 The quantitative relations which the corresponding divisions in almost any two of the animal sub-kingdoms hold to each other as wholes of ‘extension’ or of ‘denotation’.

1948 B. Russell Human Knowl. 293 An example of a denotational definition is ‘the tallest man in the United States’.

1957 in N. Frye Sound & Poetry 138 Word-repetition..repeats the..word..with the same denotational semantic spectrum.

1963 J. Lyons Struct. Semantics iii. 38 The advantage of taking the set of colour-terms..is that they are readily shown to..cover a well-defined ‘denotational field’.