Emily Dickinson Lexicon

NOTICE-A-BLE, a.

That may be observed; worthy of observation.

NOTIC-ED, pp.

Observed; seen; remarked; treated with attention.

NOTICING, ppr.

Observing; seeing; regarding; remarking on; treating with attention.

NO-TI-FI-CATION, n. [See Notify.]

1. The act of notifying or giving notice; the act of making known, particularly the act of giving official notice or information to the public, or to individuals, corporations, companies or societies, by words, by writing or by other means.
2. Notice given in words or writing, or by signs.
3. The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, citation, &c.

NO'TI-FI-ED, pp.

1. Made known; applied to things. This design of the king was notified to the court of Berlin.
2. Informed by words, writing or other means; applied persons. The Inhabitants of the city have been notifies that a meeting is to be held at the State House.

NOTI-FY, v.t. [Fr. notifier; It. notificare L. notus, known, and fade, to make.]

1. To make known; to declare; to publish. The laws of God notify to man his will and our duty.
2. To make known by private communication; to give information of. The allied sovereigns have notified the Spanish court of their purpose of maintaining legitimate government message.
3. To give notice to; to inform by words or writing, in person or by message, or by any signs which are understood. The constable has notified the citizens to meet at the City Hall. The bell notifies us of the time of meeting. The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives, that he has approved and signed the act. Journals of the Senate. Note. This application of notify has been condemned, but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.

NO'TI-FY-ING, ppr.

Making known; giving notice to.

NOTING, ppr.

Setting down in writing.

NOTION, n. [Fr. from L. notio, from notus, known; nosco, to know.]

1. Conception; mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined. We may have a just notion of power, or false notions respecting spirit. Notion and idea are primarily different; idea being the conception of something visible, as the idea of a square or a triangle; and notion the conception of things invisible or intellectual, as the notion we have of spirits. But from negligence in the use of idea, the two words are constantly confounded. What bath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume under the notion of principles. Newton. Few agree in their nations about these words. Cheyne. That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish or fear, which is in the mind, is called the idea of hunger, cold, dm. Watts.
2. Sentiment; opinion; as, the extravagant notions they entertain of themselves. Addison.
3. Sense; understanding; intellectual power. [Not used.] Shak.
4. Inclination; in vulgar use; as, I have a notion to do this or that.

NOTION-AL, a.

1. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical. National good, by fancy only made. Prior. A notional and imaginary thing. Bentley.
2. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful; as, a notional man.

NOTION-AL'I-TY, n.

Empty ungrounded opinion. [Not used.] Glanville.

NOTION-AL-LY, adv.

In mental apprehension; in conception; not in reality. Two facultics nolionally or really distinct. Norris.

NOTION-IST, n.

One who holds to an ungrounded opinion. Bp. Hopkins.

NO-TO-RIE-TY, n. [Fr. notoriety, from notoire. See Notorious.]

1. Exposure to the public knowledge; the state of being publicly or generally known; as, the notoriety of a crime.
2. Public knowledge. They were not subjects In their own nature so exposed to public notoriety. Addison.

NO-TO'RI-OUS, a. [It. and Sp. notorio; Fr. notoire; from Low L. notorius, from notus, known.]

1. Publicly known; manifest to the world; evident; usually, known to disadvantage; hence almost always used in an ill sense; as, a notorious thief; a notorious crime or vice; a man notorious for lewdness or gaming.
2. In a good sense. Your goodness, Since you provoke rue, shall be most notorious. Shak.

NOTO'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

Publicly; openly; in a manner; to be known or manifest. Swift. Dryden.

NO-TO'RI-OUS-NESS, n.

The state of being open or known; notoriety. Overbury.

NOTT, e. [Sax. hnot.]

Shorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

NOTT, v.t.

To shear. [Obs.] Stowe.

NOTUS, n. [L.]

The south wind. Milton.

NOT'WHEAT, n. [Sax. hnot, smooth, shorn.]

Wheat not bearded. Carew.

NOT-WITH-STAND'ING,

the participle of withstand, with not prefixed, and signifying not opposing; nevertheless. It retains in all cases its participial signification. For example, "I will surely react the kingdom front thee, and will give it to thy servant; notwithstanding, in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake. 1 Kings xi. In this passage there is an ellipsis of that, after notwithstanding. That refers to the former part of the sentence, I will rend the kingdom from thee;; notwithstanding that [declaration or determination,] in thy days I will not do it. In this and in all cases, notwithstanding, either with or without that or this, constitutes the case absolute or independent. "It is a rainy day, hut notwithstanding that, the troops must be reviewed;" that is, the rainy day not opposing or preventing. That, in this case, is a substitute for the whole first clause of the sentence. It is to that clause what a relative is to an antecedent noun, and which may be used in the place of it; notwithstanding which, that is, the rainy day. "Christ enjoined on his followers not to publish the cures he wrought; but notwithstanding his injunctions, they proclaimed them." Here, notwithstanding his injunctions. is the case independent or absolute; the injunctions of Christ not opposing or preventing. This word answers precisely to the Latin non obstante, and both are used with nouns or with substitutes for nouns, for sentences or for clauses of sentences. So in the Latin phrase, hoc non obstante, hoc may refer to a single word, to a sentence or to a series of sentences.

NOUGHT,

a wrong spelling. See Naught.

NOUL, n. [Sax. hnol.]

The top of the head. [Not in use.] Spenser.

NOULD,

ne would, would not. Spenser.