Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Notable things; things worthy of notice.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural Things worthy of notice.
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- noun Things worthy of
notice .
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are first to state the case carefully, then to read the text, then to restate the case, then to remark on "notabilia," and then to discuss questions arising out of the subject, and finally, to deal with the Glosses.
Life in the Medieval University Robert S. Rait
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Illud te admoneo, ne eorum more facias, qui non proficere, sed conspici cupiunt, quae in habitu tuo, aut genere vitae notabilia sunt.
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Tùncque portantur coràm eo tria valdè notabilia, quæ tam illi quàm omnibus ea dignè notantibus esse possunt salutaria.
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T鵱cque portantur cor鄊 eo tria vald� notabilia, qu� tam illi qu鄊 omnibus ea dign� notantibus esse possunt salutaria.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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They thus procured for the monastery twenty-eight notable volumes (_volumina notabilia_), also eight psalters, a book of collects,
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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The Prerogative Court was established for the trial of testamentary causes where the deceased had left "bona notabilia" (i.e. chattels of the value of at least one hundred shillings) within two different dioceses.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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BRANWELL, _late of Haworth_, _in the parish of Bradford_, _in the county of York_, _spinster (having bona notabilia within the province of York_).
Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891
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Your letter from the Far West was charmingly vivid and free; one seemed to attend you personally, and see with one's own eyes the notabilia, human and other, of those huge regions, in your swift flight through them to and from.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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He tells his friend about the tsetse, the fever, the north wind, and other African notabilia.
The Personal Life Of David Livingstone Blaikie, William G. 1880
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He tells his friend about the tsetse, the fever, the north wind, and other African notabilia.
The Personal Life of David Livingstone William Garden Blaikie 1859
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