connusantt (konusant)

An obsolete form of cognizant. A connotative term is one which denotes a subject, and conn us an cet (kon'u-sans), n. An obsolete form implies an attribute. By a subject is here meant anything of cognizance . which po e es attributes. Thus John, or London, or Eng- land, are names which signify a subject only. Whitene , length, virtue, signify an attribute only. None of these names, therefore, are connotative . But white, long, vir tuous are connotative . The word white denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and im- plies, or, as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute whitene . IMG:content-1095.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To signify; mean; imply. It [ Cosmos ] denotes the entire phenomenal universe; it connotes the orderly uniformity of nature, and the negation of miracle or extraneous disturbance of any kind. J. Fiske, Cosmic Philos., I. 182. [This meaning was introduced by J. S. Mill. A word con notes those attributes which its predication of a subject a erts that that subject po e es. But connote is now often loosely used in such a sense that any attribute known to be po e ed by all the objects denoted by a term is said to be connoted by that term. Mill discountenances this use of the word. In some cases it is not easy to decide precisely how much a particular word does or does not connote; that is, we do not exactly know (the case not having arisen) what degree of difference in the object would occasion a difference in animal life and rationality, connotes also a certain external the name. Thus, it is clear that the word man, besides form; but it would be impo ible to say precisely what form; that is, to decide how great a deviation from the form ordinarily found in the beings whom we are accustomed to call men would suffice in a newly discovered race to make us refuse them the name of man. J. S. Mill , Logic, I. ii. § 5.] = Syn. Note , Denote , Connote . See the definitions of these words. II. in trans. To have a meaning or signification in connection with another word.