connote

Verb
Synonyms: implypredicate

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. express or state indirectlySynonyms: imply
  2. involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic“solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well”Synonyms: predicate
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

connote \con*note"\ (k[o^]n*n[=o]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. connoted; p. pr. & vb. n. connoting.] [See connotate, and cote.]

1.To mark along with; to suggest or indicate as additional; to designate by implication; to include in the meaning; to imply. [1913 Webster]

Good, in the general notion of it, connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing.— South.[1913 Webster]

2.(Logic) To imply as an attribute. [1913 Webster]

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.[1913 Webster]
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