The newborn markers were ofttimes given denotive labels.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

It is believed that a name should be simply a denotive word, and that no advantage can accrue from a descriptive or connotive title.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

What is now needed is a rule of some kind leading scholars to use the same terms for the same things, and it would seem to matter little in the case of linguistic stocks what the nomenclature is, provided it becomes denotive and universal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siouan Indians] Reference

It seemed to Rosalie that whenever she projected any plan to Miss Salmon -- as to "do" a pit at a theatre -- or any theory -- as that men and not women were manifestly the cat tribe -- it seemed to her that Miss Salmon always hummed with the maddening humming denotive of disapproval, and always prefaced stupendously stubborn idiocy with the "Well, now" and the gulp that alone were sufficient to drive enthusiasm crazy.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

Bells, jingling of, under the skirts, denotive of Judean virginity, 52.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference

In like manner the ¢egiha, ʇɔiwe’re, and Hotcañgara groups, and perhaps the Niya, were without denotive designations for themselves, merely styling themselves "Local People," "Men," "Inhabitants," or, still more ambitiously, "People of the Parent Speech," in terms which are variously rendered by different interpreters; they were lords in their own domain, and felt no need for special title.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siouan Indians] Reference

2004-10-26 @ 6: 04 p.m. i think students should get a grocery discount on their preffered study guide. for example, i went through an entire jar of olives in my lecture tonight. one jar per lecture, at eleven lectures a week - that's just not right. i should be getting a students discount on olives. i'm pretty sure my gpa depends on it, at least a little bit. also, we're going for poor boy sandwiches to celebrate my new found direction in my communications research paper. rather than doing a crytical analysis of the written text relating to sept. 11th, i'm going to do a semiotics analysis of the journalistic photography! i'm going to talk about pictures and what they mean to us in their various connotive, denotive and ideological degrees! it's sick that i'm actually kind of excited about that ... but, this city hates me.    From Wordnik.com.  [anti-gens Diary Entry] Reference