connivancyt (konivansi)

Same as conn i vance or connivency. connive (ko-niv'), v.; pret. and pp. connived, ppr. conniving. [F. conniver, L. connivere, usually cōnivere, wink, wink at, overlook an error or crime, The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, to connive with either eye. Spectator , No. 305. connive Hence-2. To wink, or refrain from looking, in a figurative sense, as at a culpable person or act; give aid or encouragement by silence or forbearance; conceal knowledge of a fault or wrong: followed by at (formerly sometimes with on ). But what avail'd it Eli to be himself blamele , while he conniv'd at others that were abominable? Milton, Hist. Eng., iii. Knowing they were reduced to the extremity of famine, he generously connived at the methods practised to supply them with provisions. Goldsmith , Cultivation of Taste. 3. To be in secret complicity; have a furtive or clandestine understanding: followed by with: as, to connive with one in a wrongful act. [Colloq. or rare.] -4t. To waive objection; act as if satisfied; acquiesce: used absolutely. Upon the Pope's threatning to excommunicate the King, Thurstane entred upon his Bishop rick, and the King con Baker , Chronicles, p. 41. nived. I IMG:content-1094.png:[blocks in formation] denote secondarily; refer to something besides the object named; imply the existence of along connotes, and means nothing by itself. with or as correlated to the object named; connote: thus, the term "father" connotates a "child": used especially of qualities whose ex- istence is implied by adjectives: distinguished from denotate , denote. Law and punishment being relations, and mutually con- notating each the other. Bp. Reynolds, The Pa ions, p. 519 (Ord MS.). God's foreseeing doth not include or connotate prede- term in ing. Hammond . Some grammarians have said that an adjective only Horne Tooke , Diversions of Purley, ii. 6.