▪ I. † ˈnotory, a.1 Obs.
Also -ie, -ye.
[ad. med.L. nōtōrius or F. notoire.]
Notorious.
| 1399 Rolls of Parlt. III. 424/1 Hem thoght hem so trewe and so notorie and knowen. 1430 Ibid. V. 417/1 For many notorye and evident resons. 1490 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 322 If the trespasse be not notory, the plaintif shall prove the trespasse. 1528 Roy Rede me (Arb.) 104 He did some faulte gretly notory. 1603 Coke in Howell St. Trials II. 1 [Raleigh] the notoriest Traitor that ever came to the bar. |
▪ II. † ˈnotory, a.2 Obs. rare.
= notary a.2
| 1652 Gaule Magastrom. 190 Whether the art called the art notorie had even been so notorious, but for magick and astrologie? 1657 Turner (title), Ars Notoria, or the Notory Art of Solomon, showing the Cabbalistical Key of Magical Operations,..and the Art of Memory. |