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▪ I. notice, n.|ˈnəʊtɪs|
Also 5 notyce, 6 notize.
[a. F. notice (14th c.), ad. L. nōtitia (whence also It. notizia, Sp. and Pg. noticia), f. nōtus known.]
1. a. Intimation, information, intelligence, warning. Also with pl., and transf. (quot. 1741).
1483Cal. Proc. Chanc. Q. Eliz. (1830) Pref. 72 Byfore any knowlegge or notyce therof made or yeven to..Robert Scrope. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. vii. 122 Bring me iust notice of the numbers dead. 1653Walton Angler To Rdr. 2 Of these..I thought fit to give thee this notice. 1671Milton Samson 1536 A little stay will bring some notice hither. 1710Steele Tatler No. 173 ⁋2 His Epistles and Satires are full of proper Notices for the Conduct of Life in a Court. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. xxxii. 313 My lord.., being a little tender in his feet, from a gouty notice, walked very slowly. 1847Tennyson Princ. vii. 234 Notice of a change in the dark world Was lispt about the acacias. 1859― Geraint 149 Before him came a forester..with notice of a hart..First seen that day.
b. In phr. to give (and to have) notice.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 85 Shee wyl geeue notice to the streight of al Italye dwellers. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. ii. i. 81 Nauar had notice of your faire approach. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 37 Promising rewards..to any man [who] should give them notice when any such passed. 1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth i. (1723) 4 Wheresoever I had Notice of any considerable natural Spelunca..I forthwith had recourse thereunto. 1719–20Swift To Yng. Clergym. Wks. 1751 V. 5 Allow him with the utmost Freedom to give you notice of whatever he shall find amiss either in your voice or gesture. 1847Marryat Childr. N. Forest xx, He knew the dogs would give notice of the approach of any one.
c. at short notice, with little time for action or preparation. So at ten minutes' notice, etc.
1784Cowper Task iv. 136 Gath'ring, at short notice, in one group The family dispers'd. 1839Dickens Let. 25 July (1965) I. 569 There is always a bed for you at five minutes' notice. 1864G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 20 July, One of those tremendous gales..which spring up at ten minutes' notice. 1875Higginson Hist. U.S. xxxi. 295 All these..had to be bought..at very short notice.
d. A sign, placard, etc., conveying some intimation or intelligence.
1805Wordsw. Waggoner i. 81 Some shining notice will be there, Of open house and ready fare. 1822Shelley To Jane, Invitation 29, I leave this notice on my door For each accustomed visitor. 1834West India Sketch Bk. I. 28 At the Exchange, where thou wilt find notices of vessels..according to the ports or places.
2. a. Formal intimation or warning of something.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. v. 108 (Q.), Now will I in..to giue notice, that no manner of person..haue recourse vnto the Princes. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 401 It was done with sound of Trumpet,..as Players with us use to give notice of a Play. 1650Cal. St. P., Dom. Ser. (1876) 540 Masters of the letter packet boat, Not to carry any male passengers to France or Flanders until further notice. 1711Swift Lett. (1767) III. 167 Cairnes's clerks..said, they had received no notice of it. 1770Langhorne Plutarch (1879) I. 79/2 A herald went before, who gave notice to the people to keep holiday. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 451 Where the trust was destroyed by a conveyance to a purchaser, without notice. 1853Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 240, I had the lease of the house, and the notice to quit lying at my disposal. 1896Act 59 & 60 Vict. c. 36 §2 Public notice of any order made under this Act shall be given in the manner required.
b. An intimation by one of the parties to an agreement that it is to terminate at a specified time, esp. with reference to quitting a house, lodgings, or employment.
1765Earl of Malmesbury Let. 16 Sept. (1870) I. 129 It is 150 florins, or fourteen guineas, a-year; but I am to try it first, and may, at any time after, quit it by giving six weeks' notice. 1836Dickens Let. 5 Nov. (1965) I. 191, I have deemed it right to beg you to accept my notice from to-day. 1837― Pickw. xxvi, All I've come about, is just..to give my governor's notice. 1844― Mart. Chuz. x, All I've got to say to you, Mrs. Todgers, is,—a week's notice from next Saturday. 1887Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 299 The girl was under notice.
c. An announcement read to a church congregation (freq. pl.).
1855F. Procter Hist. Bk. Com. Prayer ii. iii. 322 The correct interpretation concerning notices to be given in church. a1870‘Mark Twain’ Let. in C. Clemens My Father (1931) i. 11 The local minister had read sixteen ‘notices’ of Sunday-school and Bible-class and church and sewing-society and other meetings. 1967Alternative Services (Second Series): An Order for Holy Communion 4 Banns of Marriage and other notices may then be published, if they have not been published before the service.
†3. Knowledge. Obs.
c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxxix. iv, O kindle there thy furies flame, Where lives no notice of thy name. 1602Marston Antonio's Rev. v. i, The Florence Prince (Drawne by firme notice of the Dukes black deeds) Is made a partner in conspiracie. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 382 Many Chantries, Chappels [etc.], more then I haue notice of, were erected..within the spacious vast Fabricke of this Episcopall Chaire. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 28 Being very ready to assist me with his advice, and notice of the state of affairs.
†4. A notion or idea. Obs.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. §11 That unreasonable thing, which all the natural and congenite notices of men cry down. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. Addr. p. vii, Improving the minds of Men in solid and useful notices of things. 1696Stillingfl. 12 Serm. iv. 142 The virtuous heathens,..according to those short and obscure notices which they had of God. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 199 Our early notices of truth, disgrac'd, Soon lose their credit, and are all effac'd.
5. a. Heed, cognizance, note, attention.
1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlix. §2 As farre as any dutie of ours dependeth vpon the notize of their condition. 1605Shakes. Lear ii. iv. 252 To no more Will I giue place or notice. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 333 Give me leave therefore to name some Fruit may be worth the notice. 1769Burke Late St. Nation Wks. II. 82 The author speaks..or her debt, as a thing scarcely worthy of notice. 1784Cowper Task v. 257 They soon grow drunk With gazing, when they see an able man Step forth to notice. 1874Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 269 If you turn away From narrow notice how the scent of gold Has guided sense of damning heresy. 1885Law Times Rep. LIII. 61/2 He had no reason to give particular notice to what lights the I.C.U. was showing.
b. One's cognizance or observation.
1607Shakes. Cor. ii. iii. 166 To my poore vnworthy notice, He mock'd vs, when he begg'd our Voyces. 1679Dryden Limberham i. i, For fear that Name shou'd bring me to the notice of my Father. 1742Fielding J. Andrews i. xv, Nor is the meanest thief below, or the greatest hero above, thy notice. 1784Johnson in Boswell 2 Aug., Wherever I turn, the dead or the dying meet my notice. 1819Shelley Cenci iv. iv. 86 A gold-inwoven robe..Betrayed them to our notice. 1895Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 651/1 Keeping back that which there was a duty to bring specifically to the notice of the underwriters.
†c. An act of observation. Obs. rare—1.
1625Fletcher & Shirley Nt. Walker ii. i, I saw the old Lady, ere she went to bed, Put up her plate..In a small long chest... Lurc. 'Twas a good notice.
†d. for notice sake, in order to be noticed. Obs.
1632Lithgow Trav. i. 41 The Iewes..in Rome, weare red, and yellow hats for notice sake, to distinguish them from others.
6. a. to take notice, to give heed, bestow attention. Const. of the person or thing; also that, how.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 341 Taking no notice that she is so nigh. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxxii. §11 After notize taken how the Montanists held these additions to be supplements of the Gospell. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 24 Our mind shall never take notice of anything the eyes doe see. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ i. vi. §2 To which purpose the Testimony of Varro in Censorinus is generally taken notice of. 1711Addison Spect. No. 39 ⁋5 Men in Ordinary Discourse very often speak Iambicks, without taking notice of it. 1779Sheridan Critic ii. ii, But isn't it odd they never were taken notice of, not even by the commander-in-chief? 1868Tennyson Lucretius 8 Yet often..the master took Small notice. 1895‘M. Maartens’ My Lady Nobody 345 Somebody tried the lock. Ursula took no notice.
b. spec. of babies: To show signs of intelligent observation.
1846Dickens Cricket on Hearth i, Two months and three da-ays!.. Takes notice in a way quite won-der-ful! 1895‘M. Maartens’ My Lady Nobody 309 ‘He is beginning to take notice’, said Ursula... ‘Don't you see how he opens and shuts his little fingers?’
†7. to take notice to (one), to point out, mention specially. Obs.
1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxxvi. 283 The haste I was in..made me forget to take notice to you of a Problem that occurr'd to my thoughts. 1718Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. II. 79, I cannot forbear taking notice to you of a mistake of Gemelli. 1765H. Walpole Otranto iv, I took notice of it to Bianca, even before I saw him in armour. 1787Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. II. 345 He took again notice to both these Ministers. 1807Southey Espriella's Lett. I. 100 He took notice to one of them, that the lad..appeared very sickly and delicate.
8. a. A brief mention in writing; spec. in modern use, a paragraph or article on a newly published book, a review. Also, a review of a play or any public entertainment.
1835Dickens Let. 23 Nov. (1965) I. 97, If I take a cab and put off writing my notice 'till we return, I can easily manage it. I shall come straight from the Theatre. 1841Arnold in Life & Corr. (1844) II. x. 298, I thank you very much for your notices of my lecture. 1847L. Hunt Men, Wom. & Bks. II. xi. 277 Pepys, not very consistently with some of his notices of the Doctor, complains that he did all the work. 1872Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. vi. (1906) 132 Before you write that brilliant notice of some..book of verses. 1952Granville Dict. Theatrical Terms 123 Notice, the news⁓paper critique following a first-night performance. 1959N. Marsh False Scent (1960) ii. 76 ‘She's playing Eliza Doolittle,’ Gantry remarked. ‘Of course. Nice notices,’ Marchant murmured.
b. pl. Notes of astronomical observations.
1861J. Nichol in Mem. (1896) 88 You are popping your kind old head in at the stand ‘to take the notices’.
9. Comb., as notice-shunning, notice-taker, notice-taking, notice-worthy.
1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. (Bohn) 20 In the days of our shy and *notice-shunning grandfathers!
1663Spencer Prodigies (1665) 374 God's Rod hath a voice.., and it becomes us to be his *notice-takers.
1614Jackson Creed iii. 45 To smother their guilt, and preuent all *notice taking of their impietie. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 39 A handsome Building.., which we thought not unworthy the notice-taking. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, Though ye are no blind, ye are no sae notice-taking as I am.
1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 182 An illustration, very *notice-worthy, of the temper which was working in the country.
b. Special Comb. notice paper, a parliamentary paper giving the current day's proceedings.
1844T. E. May Law, Privileges Parliament viii. 166 Any member [of the House of Commons] may propose a question... But in order to give the House due notice of his intention, he is required to state the form of his motion on a previous day, and to have it entered in the Order Book or Notice Paper. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 3 Apr. (1972) II. 588 After the unprecedent[ed] number of questions had been disposed of (no less than 73 being on the Notice paper)..Sir S. Northcote moved the adjournment of the House. 1956P. & G. Ford Guide to Parliamentary Papers i. i. 3 The White Paper (Notice Paper)..contains certain portions of the Blue Paper and relates to the current day's sittings.
▪ II. notice, v.|ˈnəʊtɪs|
Also 5 notyse, 6 notise, 7 notize.
[f. the n.
Not much used before the middle of the 18th cent., after which it became common in American use, and was also mentioned as a Scotticism:—
1787Beattie Scoticisms 59 Narrate, and to notice, have of late been used by some Eng. writers; but it is better to avoid them. 1789Franklin Wks. (1888) X. 177 During my late absence in France, I find that several other new words have been introduced into our parliamentary language; for example, I find a verb formed from the substantive notice: I should not have noticed this [etc.]. ]
†1. trans. To notify, intimate. Obs.
c1450Lovelich Merlin 2812 The deth of the rede dragown Schal notyse ful gret Significaciown. Ibid. 6900 Alle the clergyse there anon thorwgh the rewm dyde notyse thus son. c1525in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. II. 5 If it be ment that we shuld notise unto theis people where thoffence hathe bene committed. 1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 21 Some of his counsaile..ought shortly after to notice the same vnto him. 1627Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 305 This noticeth that we loue Gods children.., when all that are such, are entertained into our loue.
2. a. To make mention of; to remark upon; to refer to, speak of (something observed).
1611T. Howard in Harington's Nugæ Ant. (1804) I. 396 That his eyes are fire, his tail is Berenice's locks, and a few more such fancies worthy your noticing.
1748Miss C. Talbot in Lett. Miss Carter & Miss Talbot (1809) I. 296 Remember..in your answer not to notice this latter part of mine. 1766Lond. Chron. 27–30 Dec. 631/3 Mr. Garrick's judicious alteration of this Play has been already noticed in a former number. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 380 The Communications which have been received, shall be noticed as soon as possible. 1827D. Johnson Ind. Field Sports 251, I hope, if properly noticed,..that the heads of Government will take it into consideration. 1838J. H. Newman Lett. (1891) II. 263 His formal noticing the faults made them important.
b. To point out, make mention of, to one.
1627Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1632) 289 Pauls noting or notizing them to the Congregation is not excommunication complete. 1718De Foe in Lee Life (1869) I. Introd. 13 This..I thought myself obliged to notice to you. 1793Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 59 It has been thought better that I should notice to you its very exceptionable nature. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. lviii. (1867) 559 She looked so much better that Sir Charles noticed it to Lady Harriet.
3. a. To take notice of; to observe, perceive. Also absol. (cf. notice n. 6 b).
1757Amer. Mag. Dec. 118/1 Be it previously noticed that this observation is only applicable to a false taste in building. 1762Pennsylv. Arch. (1853) IV. 88, I was in the house.., and did not notice any of the above circumstances. 1781Cowper Charity 207 The wretch that works and weeps without relief, Has one that notices his silent grief. 1818Shelley Rosal. & Helen 525 Nor noticed I where joyously Sate my two younger babes at play. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxvii. 207, I could notice a turbidity gathering in the air. 1894Woman at Home II. 437 Notice a latitudinal crease in the left sleeve.
absol.1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 820 A third [child] ‘did not notice’ for some weeks. A fourth ‘did not notice at the time of head-retraction’.
b. colloq. phr. not so as you'd notice: not to a noticeable degree.
1937A. Christie Murder in Mews iii. 172 ‘He was fond of you?’ ‘Not so that you'd notice it..he rather resented my existence.’ 1938N. Marsh Artists in Crime (1954) xvi. 216 Garcia's not innocent, dear, not so's you'd notice it. 1966‘N. Blake’ Morning after Death xiii. 198 ‘Was Chester interested?’ ‘Not so as you'd notice.’ 1970W. J. Burley To kill a Cat xi. 189 ‘Any luck?’ ‘Not so's you'd notice.’
c. intr. To be seen, to show, to be noticeable.
1961Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vii. 177, I have mended the hole now. I don't think it notices.
4. To treat (a person) with some degree of attention, favour, or politeness; to recognize or acknowledge (one).
1746H. Walpole Lett. (1891) II. 24 The Venetian ambassadress..is the only woman he has yet noticed. 1775N. Eng. Hist. & Gen. Reg. (1864) XIX. 135, I was much Oblig'd to them for their good wishes and Opinion; in short, no Person could possibly be more Notic'd than myself. a1817Jane Austen Persuasion i, Mr. Elliot had..shown himself as unsolicitous of being longer noticed by the family. 1857Mrs. Gore Two Aristocr. III. 245 But of course, my dear, you did not notice such people?
5.
†a. To notify (one) of a thing. Obs. rare.
1775Trumbull in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 31 Whether these are the same ships your Excellency noticed us of, remains uncertain.
b. To serve with a notice; to give notice to.
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 561/1 The widow was regularly noticed to quit at the ensuing term. 1862Trollope Orley F. i, On these fields Mr. Dockwrath expended some money.., and when noticed to give them up.., expressed himself terribly aggrieved. 1880Daily News 18 Dec. 5/3 The men, about forty in number, were ‘noticed’ on Friday.
6. refl. To take (oneself) out of something by giving the requisite notice.
1881Chaplin in Daily News 24 Mar. 2/1 The clauses of the Act of 1875 which gave power to landlords and tenants to ‘notice’ themselves out of it.
7. To write a review or ‘notice’ of a book, play, etc.
1854Punch 15 July 20/1 The reporter who ‘noticed’ the diplomatists. 1859G. H. Lewes Let. 5 Feb. in Geo. Eliot Lett. (1954) III. 10 Perhaps also you will send the ‘Times’ should that ‘publication’ notice the carpenter [sc. Adam Bede].
Hence ˈnoticing ppl. a., observant, wide awake.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. i. (1858) 118 A brisk-eyed, noticing youth and novice. 1903E. Wharton Sanctuary ii. i. 79 You know she's an uncommonly noticing person, and little things tell with her. 1905J. C. Lincoln Partners of Tide ii. 20 Bradley, being what his late ‘Uncle Solon’ had called a ‘noticin' boy’, remembered Captain Titcomb's hint. 1940R. Postgate Verdict of Twelve i. 12 Father was not ‘noticing’; Mother was, and what's more would twist your arm till you screamed if you sulked and wouldn't answer. 1959A. Christie Cat among Pigeons xx. 205 She's not what I'd call a noticing kind of child. |