Hypertext Webster Gateway: "connote"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Connote \Con*note"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Connoted}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Connoting}.] [See {Connotate}, and {Note}.]
1. To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional;
to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to
imply.
Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a
certain suitableness of it to some other thing.
--South.
2. (Logic) To imply as an attribute.
The word ``white'' denotes all white things, as
snow, paper, the foam of the sea, etc., and ipmlies,
or as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the
attribute ``whiteness.'' --J. S. Mill.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
connote
v 1: express or state indirectly [syn: {imply}]
2: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in
logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding
it well" [syn: {predicate}]
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