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remarkable, a. and n.|rɪˈmɑːkəb(ə)l|
Also 7 remarqueable.
[ad. F. remarquable (16th c.): see remark v. and -able.]
A. adj.
1. Worthy of remark, notice or observation; hence, extraordinary, unusual, singular. Also (colloq.) as quasi-adv.
1604R. Cawdrey Table Alph., Remarkable, able or worthy to be marked againe. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xv. 67 The oddes is gone, And there is nothing left remarkeable Beneath the visiting Moone. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. iii. 262 The last and Henry of Huntingdon reckon onely foure remarqueable. 1664Burnet Own Time Suppl. (1902) 91, I heard him preach, and had an interpreter sit by me that explained the remarkablest passages of his sermon. 1705Addison Italy 5 The Gulf..is very remarkable for Tempests and Scarcity of Fish. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1782) I. 227 The next is a very remarkable picture on board at Kensington. 1779J. Woodforde Diary 6 Feb. (1924) I. 245 Mr. Ferman and myself went to see a remarkable large Pigg. 1818W. Sewall Diary 13 Mar. (1930) 39/1 The scholars appeared remarkable well. 1845Carlyle Cromwell (1871) II. 225 One of the remarkablest State papers ever published in Ireland. 1871E. Eggleston Hoosier Schoolmaster iv. 39 He uses sech remarkable smart words. 1880Geikie Phys. Geog. iv. 262 The river swells and falls again with remarkable slowness and uniformity. 1890Kipling Barrack-Room Ballads (1892) 8 We aren't no thin red 'eroes..But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you.
†2.
a. Perceptible; admitting of being observed or noted. Obs.
1622Meade in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 132 The king heard our Comedie on Wednesday, but expressed no remarkable mirth thereat. 1674Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 82 Then let us suppose in the stead of an Angel, some remarkable body. a1704T. Brown Two Oxford Scholars Wks. 1730 I. 5 A demure look, and some other remarkable signs of grace. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Surveying, Draw a remarkable line with ink, or rather with a black-lead pen quite over your paper.
†b. Likely to attract attention; conspicuous, noticeable. Obs.
1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 97, I sent the pinnace ashore with a bill to be fixed on the door of some remarkable Indian house. 1801C. Smith Lett. Solit. Wand. II. 212 On the stranger's observing to her that their conference was becoming remarkable.
B. n. A noteworthy thing or circumstance; something extraordinary or exceptional. Chiefly in pl. Now arch.
1639Fuller Holy War ii. xlvi. heading, Jerusalem wonne by the Turk, with wofull remarkables thereat. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. xi. §12 The other Remarkable, and it is a notorious one, is the Cavity on the back of the Male. 1679Mansell Narr. Popish Plot 102, I was willing to adde a few Remarkables, which I..purposely reserved for this place. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. lxxxix. 457 The places and remarkables you will see, will be new only to yourself. 1776J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 395 Be so good as to write me any remarkables in the legislature or the courts of justice. 1817Scott 17 Mar. in Fam. Lett. (1894) I. xiii. 421 Two remarkables struck me in my illness. 1856Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) II. 148 After lunch to-day we..set forth to see the remarkables of Oxford. 1946Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch 15 Jan. 10/2 (heading) Religious remarkables. |