Obs. [f. connotāt-, ppl. stem of med.L. connotāre: see CONNOTE.]

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  1.  trans. = CONNOTE 1.

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1596.  Bell, Surv. Popery, I. III. iv. 101. They connotate 490 yeares. Ibid. (1609), Theoph. & Remig., 124. The inward man doth connotate the soule, and the outward man the body.

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a. 1679.  T. Goodwin, Wks., III. I. 256 (R.). His repentance was withall significantly connotated thereby.

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1697.  J. Sergeant, Solid Philos., 51. ’Tis impossible to conceive Humanity, for Example, without connotating Homo its Suppositum.

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  2.  Of things or facts; = CONNOTE 2.

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1640.  Bp. Reynolds, Passions, xl. 519. Law and Punishment being Relatives, and mutually connotating each the other.

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a. 1660.  Hammond, Of Fundamentals, xvi. Wks. 1849, II. 149. God’s foreseeing doth not include or connotate predetermining, any more than I decree with my intellect, or will with my apprehension.

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