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Having power to denote; designating or marking off.

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  1. a. Having power to denote; designating or marking off.
  2. adj. having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming
  3. adj. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
  4. Having power to denote; designating or marking off. Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such as object has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to any single attribute. Latham.
  5. Having power to denote; designating or marking off.Proper names are preëminently denotative; telling us that such asobject has such a term to denote it, but telling us nothing as to anysingle attribute. Latham.
  6. j:100 a. having the power of explicitly denoting or designating or naming s. in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term