Con-nōte', v. t.

[imp. & p. p. CONNOTED; p. pr. & vb. n. CONNOTING.] To signify as additional; to imply; to denote or designate; to include.

Good, in the general notion of it, . . . connotes also a certain suitableness of it to some other thing. South.

The word “white” denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foam of the sea, &c., and implies, or, as it was termed by the schoolmen, connotes, the attribute “whiteness.” J. S. Mill.