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▪ I. notary, n.|ˈnəʊtərɪ|
Also 4–7 notarie, 4–5 -arye, 5 -ory, -ery.
[ad. L. notārius shorthand-writer, clerk, secretary, f. notāre to note, nota a note. Hence also Sp. notario, Pg. notario, -airo, It. notaro, -aio, F. notaire.]
†1. A clerk or secretary to a person. Obs.
In quot. 1474 applied to the bishop's pawn in chess.
1303R. Brunne Handlyng Synne 5748 Pers kalled to hym hys clerk Þat was hys notarye. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 32 Þanne am I conscience ycalde, goddis clerke and his notarie. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 212 Of Notaries... To chese the be-houeth, to writte thy Pryuyteis.., wyse men of Parfite eloquence. 1474Caxton Chesse (1883) 92 Hit is reson that the alphyn or juge haue his notarye, by whom y⊇ processe may be wreton. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa iii. 160 Where the gouernor of the mint with his scribes and notaries haue their aboad. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xiv. v. 8 The principall and of greatest note was one Paulus a Notarie, borne in Spaine.
fig.1593Shakes. Lucr. 765 O comfort-killing Night,..Dim register and notary of shame! 1615Breton Charac. Ess., Knowledge Wks. (Grosart) II. 6/1 Knowledge..is the Notary of Time, and the tryer of Truth.
2. A person publicly authorized to draw up or attest contracts or similar documents, to protest bills of exchange, etc., and discharge other duties of a formal character.
1340Ayenb. 40 Þe ualse notaryes, þet makeþ þe ualse lettres, and ualseþ þe celes. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋721 Ware yow, questemongers and notaries. 1423Coventry Lett.-bk. (E.E.T.S.) 59 Whethur he be Notary impereall, or he be not; and if so be he be a Notary sworen & admyttyd [etc.]. 1480Caxton's Chron. Eng. (1520) vii. 126 b, Whan they hadde thus sworne they toke theyr crosses that theyr othes were comprehended into the notaryes. 1513–4Act 5 Hen. VIII, c. 1 Preamble, Divers officers..called Notaries..to accepte take and recorde the Knowlege of all contractes. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. §100 e, It sufficeth not our notarie to know only what Instruments and contracts be. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. To Rdr. (1651) 26 Notaries alter sentences, and for money lose their deeds. 1720Strype Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xv. 328/2 There were sixteen Notaries in the Mayoralty of Sir James Haws..in 1574. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvii, The Inquisitor merely bade the notary write down her name. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India I. 123 He acts as notary in drawing up deeds for them. 1871W. Markby Elem. Law §480 The resort..to a notary to draw up the documents relating to any business in hand.
b. More fully notary public, public (or † common) notary.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 546 Thomas Feryby and Denys Lopham, notaryes publyque. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 204 The subscription of a common notarie therunto requyred. 1578T. N. tr. Conq. W. India 5 The office of Publike notarie in Azua. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. 65 Made a Count Apostolick, whereby he had the Priviledges to appoint publick Notaries. 1682J. Scarlett Exchanges 72 Protest is ordinarily made by a Notary Publick in the presence of two credible Witnesses. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 4954/4 The Employment of Advocate, Writer to the Signet, Notary Publick. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 128 Authenticated by his certificate or attestation, as a notary public. 1866Crump Banking v. 116 In the absence of a notary-public, a protest may be made by any inhabitant of the place.
†3. A noter or observer. Obs.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurd. Wks. (Grosart) I. 32 You know them without my discourse,..though I be not the Notarie of their iniquitie. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 234 The words of Christ shall be asserted from such elementall notaries, and resolv'd by the now-only law⁓giving mouth of charity. 1685Dunton Lett. fr. New-Eng. (1867) 18 All that this Starry Notary can tell her, is that the Stars prognosticate a Boy.
†4. A note-book. Obs. rare—1.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 255 You have nothing but the weakness of your memory and notaries to excuse all these palpable untruths.
▪ II. † ˈnotary, a.1 Obs.
Also 5 -arye, 5–6 -arie, 6 -eri, -erye.
[ad. med.L. nōtārius for nōtōrius, perh. after F. notaire.]
1. Notorious.
1388–9in Wyclif's Sel. Wks. III. 468 If hit be knowen þat persouns..lyven in notary fornicacione. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 447/1 Many murdererys of men, and notarye theves. 1502Arnolde Chron. (1811) 276 Any other Notary and open causes vpon the which ony subget, clerke, or leyman be diffamyd. 1527in Fiddes Wolsey (1726) II. 171 It is also verey notarie that thei dyd lye together.
2. Well-known; notable.
1419in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 87 To remembre his notarie proclamation made thorgh his Roialme. 1423Rolls of Parlt. IV. 257 Expert persones, havyng notary conyng in the craft of Goldsmyth. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 518 Where both hoostis thus lyinge, wtout notary feate of warre, a treatye of accorde was yet agayne moued.
▪ III. † ˈnotary, a.2 Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. type *notāri-us, f. nota a mark. Cf. notorious and notory.]
Dealing with marks or signs.
1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. xv. xlii. 393 Hereunto [to Theurgie] belongeth..the art of Paule, the art of Revelations, and the art Notarie. |