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connotate
v.
Obs.
[f. connotat-, ppl. stem of med.L. connotare: see CONNOTE.]
1. trans. = CONNOTE 1.
1596 BELL Surv. Popery I. III. iv. 101 They connotate 490 yeares. 1609 {emem} Theoph. & Remig. 124 The inward man doth connotate the soule, and the outward man the body. a1679 T. GOODWIN Wks. III. I. 256 (R.) His repentance was withall significantly connotated thereby. 1697 J. SERGEANT Solid Philos. 51 'Tis impossible to conceive Humanity, for Example, without connotating Homo its Suppositum.
2. Of things or facts; = CONNOTE 2.
1640 BP. REYNOLDS Passions xl. 519 Law and Punishment being Relatives, and mutually connotating each the other. a1660 HAMMOND (J.), God's foreseeing doth not include or connotate predetermining, any more than I decree with my intellect.
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