notifyv.

Brit.

/ˈnəʊtᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈnoʊdəˌfaɪ/

Forms: Middle English motifie (transmission error), Middle English notefye, Middle English notiffie, Middle English notifye, Middle English notyffye, Middle English–1500s notefie, Middle English–1500s notefy, Middle English–1500s notyfie, Middle English–1600s notyfy, Middle English–1700s notifie, Middle English– notify, 1500s nodefy, 1500s nodifie, 1500s notyfye; Scottish pre-1700 notefe, pre-1700 notefie, pre-1700 notefy, pre-1700 notife, pre-1700 notifie, pre-1700 notyfy, pre-1700 1700s– notify.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French notifier.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French notifier, notefier to make known (1314 in Old French; French notifier ) < classical Latin nōtificāre to make known, in post-classical Latin also to define, to explain (13th cent. in British sources), to signify, to denote (c1230–50 in Bartholomaeus Anglicus: compare quot. a1398 at sense 2), to reveal (late 14th cent. in a British source) < nōtus known, past participle of nōscere to know (see know v.) + -ficāre -fy suffix. Compare Italian notificare (c1250 or earlier), Spanish notificar (1345 or earlier), Portuguese notificar (1357).

a. transitive. To make known, publish, proclaim; to intimate, give notice of, announce. Frequently with to. Also occasionally intransitive: to give notification.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > intimation or making known > intimate or make known (something) [verb (transitive)]

speakc825

areadc885

meldeOE

sayOE

yknowa1225

warnc1275

bekena1300

wraya1300

signifyc1325

declarec1340

to speak outc1384

discuss1389

notifyc1390

bida1400

advertise1447

notice1447

detectc1465

render1481

minister1536

to set outa1540

summonc1540

intimate1548

acquaint1609

phrase1614

voice1629

denote1660

unlade1717

apprise1817

aira1902

c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 256 And notified is thurgh out the toun That euery wight..Scholde preyen Crist.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2825 (MED) His name Celestin men calle, Which notefied was be bulle To holi cherche.

1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 425/1 The whiche offre and agrement..[was] notified and communed to all the Lordes.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos viii. 34 [They] notefyden vnto the quene, how the sayd kyng had requyred her in maryage.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 76 All this mattur..schal-be moore effectually & expressly notified vnto you.

1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Sc. 192 We haue thought good to notify vnto the world his doinges and behauour.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 110 The ensignes and Lieutenants to giue and notifie the orders and commandes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. i. 28 If she will stirre hither, I shall seeme to notifie vnto her.

1641 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 5 To notify throughout their circuits his Majesties greate grace and goodnesse to his people [etc.].

1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 205 A memorial to the states general, notifyeing to them that the queen of Englands fleet is ready to putt to sea.

1718 Free-thinker No. 25. 2 In paying a Visit, the Visiter was obliged to notify himself by a set Form.

1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 10 The Assembly..order'd Letters to be written to notify the same to all concern'd.

1780 C. Reeve Old Eng. Baron (ed. 2) 123 He sent Wyatt before, to notify his arrival to Sir Philip.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 457 The king therefore notified to the country his intention of holding a parliament.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 714 (note) The appointment..was merely notified to him by a letter from a Secretary of State.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 465/2 In October 1872 Lord Granville notified to General Schenk..that the British government did not consider that the indirect losses were within the submission.

2001 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 22 Oct. 1 The Historic Places Trust yesterday publically notified its intention to place the building..on its register.

†b. intransitive. To give intimation of something. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xix. 89 All that, madame, was to me certyfyde By good dame Fame,..Whan she to me of you well notyfide.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lviii He sent dyuerse postes too notefie to hys grace of Kynge Philippes landynge.

c. transitive. spec. (chiefly Medicine). To report (a notifiable occurrence, esp. a case of a serious transmissible disease) to the relevant authority; to make the subject of formal notification. Also occasionally intransitive.

ΚΠ

1882 Lancet 26 Aug. 317/2 The compulsion to notify should be placed upon the householder..and not upon the doctor.

1923 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 86 140 In certain metropolitan areas measles, german measles, whooping-cough and zymotic enteritis (diarrhœa) are to be notified.

1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) xxix. 285 In 1907 an act was passed requiring births to be notified to the local medical officer of health within forty-eight hours of their occurrence.

1976 Lancet 30 Oct. 974/2 Records are kept of all opiate addicts statutorily notified.

1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry ii. 62/1 Fowl pest has not yet occurred in Australia but there is always a danger that it will be introduced and any suspected cases should be notified to a Government Veterinary Surgeon.

†2. transitive. To indicate, denote, signify. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > [verb (transitive)]

tokenc888

sayOE

tellc1175

note?c1225

signifyc1275

notifyc1390

signc1390

ossc1400

testify1445

point1477

betoken1486

indike?1541

demonstrate1558

to give show of1567

argue1585

portend1590

speak1594

denotate1597

denote1597

evidence1610

instance1616

bespeak1629

resent1638

indict1653

notificate1653

indicate1706

exhibit1799

to body forth1821

signalize1825

to speak for ——1832

index1862

signal1866

c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 430 Yet notifie they in hire array of atyr likerousnesse and pride.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9a/a Þese fyue nociouns..notifieth [L. notificant] þe persones.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 20 Appollo..is for to sey the sonne, be whom we notifie trouth.

J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 974 (MED) Off yche regyon he bare the cheff coloure in hys harnes, To notyffye the manhod off hys scharp iurneys.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 84 Notifiyng in myne opinion, a manne to be ferre unmeete for all good occupacions.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. viii. 287 Auges..be certaine imagined points in the heaven, notifying the furthest distance of any Orbe or Spheare from the Center of the world.

1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xl. §7 All distinguished and notified from the rest by the wearing of purple garments.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 59 Some Persons in our Works are notified by all of these Indications.

a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 240 Their design was to notify the distraction of Egypt.

1750 W. Dodd New Bk. of Dunciad 25 It is plain the elder Scriblerus is much mistaken in his conjecture concerning the bard here notified: For it cannot be the author of the Odes on Beauty.

†3. transitive. To take note of, observe, notice. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)]

markc1175

note?c1225

heedc1275

apperceivec1300

spyc1380

notec1390

notac1392

registera1393

considerc1400

notifya1425

animadvert?a1475

mind1490

adnote1558

observe1560

quote1560

remark1581

to take note1600

apprehenda1634

to take cognizance of1635

animadverse1642

notice1660

to pass in review1697

smoke1716

cognize1821

spot1848

looky1900

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1591 Herde al this thyng Criseyde wel inough, And every word gan for to notifie.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 10^v (MED) Aboute þe anothamye iij þingis ben to be notified at þe bigynnynge.

?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) 22 Saule ys my name, I wyll that ye notyfy.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxli So hangith on his shulders his pype contynually Wherby men may his lewdnes notyfy.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vii. 108 And by our vocis eile Thai notify that nane of ws was Creile.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 82 She giues you to notifie, that her husband will be absence from his house, betweene ten and eleuen.

1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. i. i. 143 Therefore we will first notifie the Principles.

1846 Bell’s Life in Sydney 31 Oct. 2/2 Arriving at the grubbing ground we were pleased to notify the exactness and propriety of the caterer’s design.

4. transitive. To inform (someone); to give notice to. Also: (with indirect object) †to tell (obsolete). Frequently with of, that.Common in North American use from the end of the 17th cent.; rare in modern British use before the 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > intimation or making known > intimate or make known (something) [verb (transitive)] > notify someone of something

notifyc1450

advertise1454

notice1763

c1450 (c1400) Cuckoo & Nightingale (Fairf.) (1975) 20 (MED) Biseche her..To þenk on my trouþe to her..And to abrigge of my sorow þe violence..She like among, to notifie me hir likyng.

?c1475 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 589 If any of thappointementis..be brokyn..and the king..certiffied and notiffiede therof.

1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 169 The Frier..notified and commanded them..to go with them to Tordesillas.

1697 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 226 The Selectmen are to be notified thereof that they may be present.

1716 J. Winthrop Let. 21 Aug. in Winthrop Papers (1892) V. 324 I am notify'd by the County Sheriff..to answer before you to a very wrong complaint.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 352 All parties, who had causes depending in any court, were to be duly notified by the Governor's proclamation.

1781 J. Witherspoon Druid No. v, in J. Pickering New Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. (1815) III. ii. 499 In [British] English we do not notify the person of the thing, but notify the thing to the person.

1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar I. 107 Peter notified him, through his first minister, that he was to attend the ceremony.

1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 66 The asphalt..resounded with the clatter of the hoofs which notified the concierge..that Baron Grandesella's family and luggage were on the point of arrival.

1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 83 Ponchartrain notified the new governor of his appointment.

1934 D. Hammett Thin Man iii. 15 She had heard feeble groans when she rang the murdered woman's door-bell, whereupon she notified an elevator boy.

1957 G. Harding Along my Line xvi. 159 One or two of the guests..had gone to the trouble to notify their friends and relations across the width and breadth of Canada.

1988 Grimsby Evening Tel. 3 Feb. 15 Players will be notified of the time and venue when all the details are known.

†5. transitive. To write notes to; to annotate. Cf. notifier n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate

annotec1525

scholy1593

note1611

annotate1693

benote1767

notify1830

notate1872

1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Dec. (1946) 130 I took up the Magnum, and began to notify the Romance calld Woodstock.

Derivatives

ˈnotifying n. and adj. (a) n. the action of notify v.; (also) a notification; (b) adj. that notifies.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun]

publicationa1387

publishing?c1450

publishmenta1513

propagation1531

divulgating1537

bruit1548

divulgation1548

edition1549

notifying1550

promulgation1562

provulgation1566

diffusion1600

blazon1603

divulging1604

divulge1619

ventilationa1631

evulgation1638

propalationa1676

circulation1684

popularization1797

pervulgationa1832

society > communication > indication > [adjective] > indicating or indicative of

talkative1509

indicant1607

denotative1611

indicative1665

notifying1680

expressive1713

indicating1753

impressive1791

indicatory1798

redolent1828

denotive1830

indiciala1849

indexical1897

1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Miiij^v The signification and notifiynge of the lawe [L. significationem legis].

1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Notificatione A notifying, a publishing.

1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet xvi. 32 Are these notifying Terms for a Definition?

1988 H. Parker et al. Living with Heroin (BNC) 21 Medical practitioners..are..partial and negligent in their notifying practices.

2000 Independent 5 June ii. 1/5 He got a D and an E, and a fail. Were you upset when you opened the notifying letter?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	notify
释义	notifyv. Brit. /ˈnəʊtᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈnoʊdəˌfaɪ/ Forms: Middle English motifie (transmission error), Middle English notefye, Middle English notiffie, Middle English notifye, Middle English notyffye, Middle English–1500s notefie, Middle English–1500s notefy, Middle English–1500s notyfie, Middle English–1600s notyfy, Middle English–1700s notifie, Middle English– notify, 1500s nodefy, 1500s nodifie, 1500s notyfye; Scottish pre-1700 notefe, pre-1700 notefie, pre-1700 notefy, pre-1700 notife, pre-1700 notifie, pre-1700 notyfy, pre-1700 1700s– notify. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French notifier. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French notifier, notefier to make known (1314 in Old French; French notifier ) < classical Latin nōtificāre to make known, in post-classical Latin also to define, to explain (13th cent. in British sources), to signify, to denote (c1230–50 in Bartholomaeus Anglicus: compare quot. a1398 at sense 2), to reveal (late 14th cent. in a British source) < nōtus known, past participle of nōscere to know (see know v.) + -ficāre -fy suffix. Compare Italian notificare (c1250 or earlier), Spanish notificar (1345 or earlier), Portuguese notificar (1357). 1. a. transitive. To make known, publish, proclaim; to intimate, give notice of, announce. Frequently with to. Also occasionally intransitive: to give notification. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > intimation or making known > intimate or make known (something) [verb (transitive)] speakc825 areadc885 meldeOE sayOE yknowa1225 warnc1275 bekena1300 wraya1300 signifyc1325 declarec1340 to speak outc1384 discuss1389 notifyc1390 bida1400 advertise1447 notice1447 detectc1465 render1481 minister1536 to set outa1540 summonc1540 intimate1548 acquaint1609 phrase1614 voice1629 denote1660 unlade1717 apprise1817 aira1902 c1390 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 256 And notified is thurgh out the toun That euery wight..Scholde preyen Crist. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2825 (MED) His name Celestin men calle, Which notefied was be bulle To holi cherche. 1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 425/1 The whiche offre and agrement..[was] notified and communed to all the Lordes. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos viii. 34 [They] notefyden vnto the quene, how the sayd kyng had requyred her in maryage. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 76 All this mattur..schal-be moore effectually & expressly notified vnto you. 1542 King Henry VIII Declar. Sc. 192 We haue thought good to notify vnto the world his doinges and behauour. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 110 The ensignes and Lieutenants to giue and notifie the orders and commandes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. i. 28 If she will stirre hither, I shall seeme to notifie vnto her. View more context for this quotation 1641 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 5 To notify throughout their circuits his Majesties greate grace and goodnesse to his people [etc.]. 1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 205 A memorial to the states general, notifyeing to them that the queen of Englands fleet is ready to putt to sea. 1718 Free-thinker No. 25. 2 In paying a Visit, the Visiter was obliged to notify himself by a set Form. 1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 10 The Assembly..order'd Letters to be written to notify the same to all concern'd. 1780 C. Reeve Old Eng. Baron (ed. 2) 123 He sent Wyatt before, to notify his arrival to Sir Philip. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 457 The king therefore notified to the country his intention of holding a parliament. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 714 (note) The appointment..was merely notified to him by a letter from a Secretary of State. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 465/2 In October 1872 Lord Granville notified to General Schenk..that the British government did not consider that the indirect losses were within the submission. 2001 Evening Post (Wellington) (Nexis) 22 Oct. 1 The Historic Places Trust yesterday publically notified its intention to place the building..on its register. †b. intransitive. To give intimation of something. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xix. 89 All that, madame, was to me certyfyde By good dame Fame,..Whan she to me of you well notyfide. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. lviii He sent dyuerse postes too notefie to hys grace of Kynge Philippes landynge. c. transitive. spec. (chiefly Medicine). To report (a notifiable occurrence, esp. a case of a serious transmissible disease) to the relevant authority; to make the subject of formal notification. Also occasionally intransitive. ΚΠ 1882 Lancet 26 Aug. 317/2 The compulsion to notify should be placed upon the householder..and not upon the doctor. 1923 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 86 140 In certain metropolitan areas measles, german measles, whooping-cough and zymotic enteritis (diarrhœa) are to be notified. 1948 G. W. Southgate Eng. Econ. Hist. (new ed.) xxix. 285 In 1907 an act was passed requiring births to be notified to the local medical officer of health within forty-eight hours of their occurrence. 1976 Lancet 30 Oct. 974/2 Records are kept of all opiate addicts statutorily notified. 1981 K. Thear in K. Thear & A. Fraser Compl. Bk. Raising Livestock & Poultry ii. 62/1 Fowl pest has not yet occurred in Australia but there is always a danger that it will be introduced and any suspected cases should be notified to a Government Veterinary Surgeon. †2. transitive. To indicate, denote, signify. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [verb (transitive)] tokenc888 sayOE tellc1175 note?c1225 signifyc1275 notifyc1390 signc1390 ossc1400 testify1445 point1477 betoken1486 indike?1541 demonstrate1558 to give show of1567 argue1585 portend1590 speak1594 denotate1597 denote1597 evidence1610 instance1616 bespeak1629 resent1638 indict1653 notificate1653 indicate1706 exhibit1799 to body forth1821 signalize1825 to speak for ——1832 index1862 signal1866 c1390 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale 430 Yet notifie they in hire array of atyr likerousnesse and pride. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 9a/a Þese fyue nociouns..notifieth [L. notificant] þe persones. c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 20 Appollo..is for to sey the sonne, be whom we notifie trouth. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 974 (MED) Off yche regyon he bare the cheff coloure in hys harnes, To notyffye the manhod off hys scharp iurneys. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 84 Notifiyng in myne opinion, a manne to be ferre unmeete for all good occupacions. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. i. viii. 287 Auges..be certaine imagined points in the heaven, notifying the furthest distance of any Orbe or Spheare from the Center of the world. 1627 J. Speed Eng. Abridged xl. §7 All distinguished and notified from the rest by the wearing of purple garments. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 59 Some Persons in our Works are notified by all of these Indications. a1727 I. Newton Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) ii. 240 Their design was to notify the distraction of Egypt. 1750 W. Dodd New Bk. of Dunciad 25 It is plain the elder Scriblerus is much mistaken in his conjecture concerning the bard here notified: For it cannot be the author of the Odes on Beauty. †3. transitive. To take note of, observe, notice. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > notice, observation > observe, note [verb (transitive)] markc1175 note?c1225 heedc1275 apperceivec1300 spyc1380 notec1390 notac1392 registera1393 considerc1400 notifya1425 animadvert?a1475 mind1490 adnote1558 observe1560 quote1560 remark1581 to take note1600 apprehenda1634 to take cognizance of1635 animadverse1642 notice1660 to pass in review1697 smoke1716 cognize1821 spot1848 looky1900 a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) ii. 1591 Herde al this thyng Criseyde wel inough, And every word gan for to notifie. c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 10^v (MED) Aboute þe anothamye iij þingis ben to be notified at þe bigynnynge. ?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) 22 Saule ys my name, I wyll that ye notyfy. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. cxli So hangith on his shulders his pype contynually Wherby men may his lewdnes notyfy. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. vii. 108 And by our vocis eile Thai notify that nane of ws was Creile. a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. ii. 82 She giues you to notifie, that her husband will be absence from his house, betweene ten and eleuen. View more context for this quotation 1678 R. Russel tr. Jabir ibn Haiyan Wks. Geber iii. ii. i. i. 143 Therefore we will first notifie the Principles. 1846 Bell’s Life in Sydney 31 Oct. 2/2 Arriving at the grubbing ground we were pleased to notify the exactness and propriety of the caterer’s design. 4. transitive. To inform (someone); to give notice to. Also: (with indirect object) †to tell (obsolete). Frequently with of, that.Common in North American use from the end of the 17th cent.; rare in modern British use before the 20th cent. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > intimation or making known > intimate or make known (something) [verb (transitive)] > notify someone of something notifyc1450 advertise1454 notice1763 c1450 (c1400) Cuckoo & Nightingale (Fairf.) (1975) 20 (MED) Biseche her..To þenk on my trouþe to her..And to abrigge of my sorow þe violence..She like among, to notifie me hir likyng. ?c1475 ( in J. Stevenson Lett. & Papers Illustr. Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 589 If any of thappointementis..be brokyn..and the king..certiffied and notiffiede therof. 1652 J. Wadsworth tr. P. de Sandoval Civil Wars Spain 169 The Frier..notified and commanded them..to go with them to Tordesillas. 1697 in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1881) VII. 226 The Selectmen are to be notified thereof that they may be present. 1716 J. Winthrop Let. 21 Aug. in Winthrop Papers (1892) V. 324 I am notify'd by the County Sheriff..to answer before you to a very wrong complaint. 1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 352 All parties, who had causes depending in any court, were to be duly notified by the Governor's proclamation. 1781 J. Witherspoon Druid No. v, in J. Pickering New Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. (1815) III. ii. 499 In [British] English we do not notify the person of the thing, but notify the thing to the person. 1843 tr. A. L. L. de Custine Empire of Czar I. 107 Peter notified him, through his first minister, that he was to attend the ceremony. 1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto I. 66 The asphalt..resounded with the clatter of the hoofs which notified the concierge..that Baron Grandesella's family and luggage were on the point of arrival. 1895 J. Winsor Mississippi Basin 83 Ponchartrain notified the new governor of his appointment. 1934 D. Hammett Thin Man iii. 15 She had heard feeble groans when she rang the murdered woman's door-bell, whereupon she notified an elevator boy. 1957 G. Harding Along my Line xvi. 159 One or two of the guests..had gone to the trouble to notify their friends and relations across the width and breadth of Canada. 1988 Grimsby Evening Tel. 3 Feb. 15 Players will be notified of the time and venue when all the details are known. †5. transitive. To write notes to; to annotate. Cf. notifier n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > annotate annotec1525 scholy1593 note1611 annotate1693 benote1767 notify1830 notate1872 1830 W. Scott Jrnl. 27 Dec. (1946) 130 I took up the Magnum, and began to notify the Romance calld Woodstock. Derivatives ˈnotifying n. and adj. (a) n. the action of notify v.; (also) a notification; (b) adj. that notifies. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] publicationa1387 publishing?c1450 publishmenta1513 propagation1531 divulgating1537 bruit1548 divulgation1548 edition1549 notifying1550 promulgation1562 provulgation1566 diffusion1600 blazon1603 divulging1604 divulge1619 ventilationa1631 evulgation1638 propalationa1676 circulation1684 popularization1797 pervulgationa1832 society > communication > indication > [adjective] > indicating or indicative of talkative1509 indicant1607 denotative1611 indicative1665 notifying1680 expressive1713 indicating1753 impressive1791 indicatory1798 redolent1828 denotive1830 indiciala1849 indexical1897 1550 N. Udall tr. P. M. Vermigli Disc. Sacrament Lordes Supper sig. Miiij^v The signification and notifiynge of the lawe [L. significationem legis]. 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words at Notificatione A notifying, a publishing. 1680 R. Baxter Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet xvi. 32 Are these notifying Terms for a Definition? 1988 H. Parker et al. Living with Heroin (BNC) 21 Medical practitioners..are..partial and negligent in their notifying practices. 2000 Independent 5 June ii. 1/5 He got a D and an E, and a fail. Were you upset when you opened the notifying letter? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1390
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