connotive

The question of flies -- using that, to a woodsman, eminently connotive word in its wide embracement of mosquitoes, sandflies, deer-flies, black flies, and midges -- is one much mooted in the craft.

The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909

The aborigines were at the time of discovery, and indeed most of them remain today, in the prescriptorial stage of culture, i.e., the stage in which ideas are crystallized, not by means of arbitrary symbols, but by means of arbitrary associations, (18) and in this stage names are connotive or descriptive, rather than denotive as in the scriptorial stage.

The Siouan Indians 1882

It is believed that a name should be simply a denotive word, and that no advantage can accrue from a descriptive or connotive title.

Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891 John Wesley Powell 1868

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009

Ryan Hogan, a sculptor whose work is currently on display in Scarritt-Bennett Center's gallery F, quotes Eva Hesse in his artist's statement: "I wanted to get to non art, non connotive, non anthropomorphic, non geometric, non nothing."

NashvilleScene.com 2009