† notoire, a. Obs. rare.
Also 5 -oyre.
[a. F. notoire, ad. med.L. nōtōrius notorious. Cf. notour a.]
Notorious, evident.
| a 1470 Tiptoft Tulle on Old Age (Caxton, 1481) h iv, It is clere and notoire in what place al the other thynges goen. c 1477 Caxton Jason 72 b, Hit is among yow euydent and notoyre that ye shall not take in pacience my correccion. |
Hence † notoirly adv., notoriously. Obs.
| 1409–10 Proc. Privy Council (1834) I. 323 As it is notoirly knowen and he hym selfe as trewe knyghte may noght witheseye it. 1470–85 Malory Arthur Pref. 1 For it is notoyrly knowen thorugh the vnyuersal world. |