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单词 connote
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Brit. /kəˈnəʊt/, U.S. /kəˈnoʊt/
Etymology: < medieval Latin connotāre to mark along with, to mark (a thing) with or in addition to (another), < Latin con- together with + notāre to mark, to note v.2The Latin word was in common use in mediæval logic: apparently first, according to Prantl, in Duns Scotus, and frequently in Occam, and so onwards in the terminology of the schools; thence it passed into English literary use; but its use as an English technical term of logic is recent, and due to Jas. and J. S. Mill.a1300 Duns Scotus (in Prantl III. 134, (note) 598) Tam secundum significatum quam secundum connotatum.a1347 Occam (in Prantl III. 364 n. 829) Quaedam sunt synonyma, quia simpliciter idem significant et connotant.1658 A. Heereboord Ἑρμηνεία Logica (new ed.) i. xxv. 152 Ideoque [vox concreta] illud consignificat seu connotat; ut justus significat justitiam, sed quæ concernit & connotat hominem in quo est.
1. transitive. To signify secondarily or in addition; to include or imply along with the primary or essential meaning.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > collocation > collocate [verb (transitive)]
connote1664
collocate1951
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > communicate secretively [verb (transitive)] > have hidden meaning
import?a1425
imply1529
inferc1530
report1565
connotate1596
connote1664
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 271 Ὁ ὄϕις ὁ ἀρχαῖος connoting the Roman Empire as well as the Devil.
1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 434 Good..over and above the bare Being of a Thing, Connotes also a certain sutableness or agreeableness of it to some other thing.
1872 M. Pattison Ess. (1889) II. 389 Deism..connotes along with natural religion a negation of the truth or reality of the Christian revelation.
2. Of things or facts: To imply or involve as a consequence, condition, or accompaniment.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > communicate secretively [verb (transitive)] > have hidden meaning > implying consequence
connotate1640
connote1656
connotationa1676
1656 R. Vines Treat. Inst. Lords-Supper xii. 144 A practical remembrance, which connotes affections fruitfull effect.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 61 This Faith doth not onely denote precisely..such opinions and persuasions..but doth also connote, and imply..such acts of will, as..are naturally consequent upon them.
1757 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) IX. 243 But ‘punishment always connotes guilt’. It always connotes sin and suffering; and here are both.
1867 Sat. Rev. 7 Dec. 719/1 A luxury which connotes a high condition of intellect and character, but still a luxury.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) xxi. 376 The descent of snow in one place connotes the evaporation of water in another locality.
3. To combine in signifying (something); to mean in combination. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > linguistics > semantics > meaning or signification > mean or signify [verb (intransitive)] > mean when combined with something
consignify1646
connote1786
1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα ix. 325 The cypher, which has no value of itself, and only serves (if I may use the language of Grammarians) to connote and consignify, and to change the value of the figures.
1805 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα (ed. 2) II. vi. 437 Some Grammarians have said that an Adjective only connotes, and means nothing by itself.
4. Logic. (Of a term.)
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a. With the earlier logicians: To imply or indicate the subject in which an attribute inheres, while primarily signifying or ‘noting’ the attribute itself. Obsolete.
b. With J. S. Mill: To imply or indicate the attributes involved, while denoting (or being predicated of) the subject.As to the change of use, see note to connotative term, and cf. quot. 1829 with Heereboord above.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [verb (transitive)] > connote
connote1829
1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. i. 28 White, in the phrase white horse, denotes two things, the colour, and the horse; but it denotes the colour primarily, the horse secondarily. We shall find it very convenient to say..that it notes the primary, connotes the secondary signification.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. ii. §5 The word white, denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and implies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute of whiteness.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. ii. §5 The name..is said to signify the subjects directly, the attributes indirectly; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth, connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name.
1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. ii. §5 Whenever the names given to objects convey any information, that is, whenever they have properly any meaning, the meaning resides not in what they denote, but in what they connote.
1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic ii. 19 A term may be said to denote or designate individuals, to connote or mean attributes or groups of attributes.
c. Hence, in general, non-technical use: To imply, include in its signification, convey to the mind or mean in actual use and application. (Often loosely used.)
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1865 C. Kingsley Lett. (1878) II. 216 A man may believe the facts which the doctrine connotes without believing the doctrine.
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) I. Prolegomena iii. p. lxiv The terms ‘three and three’ and ‘six’ denote the same relations, connote different ideas.
1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iv. 148 It is Christianity alone which breathed into it all that it connotes.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 45 Characters which the name is not intended to connote.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxii. 431 The word [Council] connotes a totally different order of conceptions to those that were prevalent at that early time.

Derivatives

connoted adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > meaning > [adjective] > connoted
connoted1829
the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > implied by connotation
connoted1829
1829 J. Mill Anal. Human Mind I. ix. 219 It is often highly convenient to drop the connotation; that is, to leave out the connoted cluster.
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