denotate

English edit

Etymology edit

A back-formation from denotation, or from Latin dēnotātus (“marked”), past participle of dēnotō (“I mark, I observe”).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ˈdɛnəʊteɪt/

Verb edit

denotate (third-person singular simple present denotates, present participle denotating, simple past and past participle denotated)

(archaic) To mark off; to denote.
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Cure of Despaire by Physick, good counsell, comforts, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed [by Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 4, member 3, subsection 6, page 716:
  Thoſe termes of all and for ever in ſcripture, are not eternall, but onely denotate a longer time, which by many examples they prove.
- 1653, François Rabelais, Thomas Urquhart and Peter Anthony Motteux, transl., “The Colours and Liveries of Gargantua”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: […] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: […] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the first, page 33:
  An old paultry book, say you, sold by the hawking Pedlars and Balladmongers, entituled The Blason of Colours: Who made it? whoever it was, he was wise in that he did not set his name to it: but, besides, I know not what I should rather admire in him, his presumption or his sottishnesse: his presumption and overweening, for that he should without reason, without cause, or without any appearance of truth, have dared to prescribe by his private authority, what things should be denotated and signified by the colour: […]