notification (no"tifikashon)

[= F. not i fication = Sp. notificacion = Pg. notificação = It. not if i caz i one, God, in the notification of this name, sends us sufficiently instructed to establish you in the a urance of an everlasting and an ever-ready God. Donne, Sermons, v. 2. Specifically, the act of giving official notice or information by writing, or by other means: as, the notification must take place in three days.-3. Notice given in words or writing, or by signs; intimation. Four or five torches... elevated or depre ed out of their order, either in breadth or longways, may, by agreement, give great variety of notifications. Holder, Elements of Speech, p. 4. (Latham.) 4. The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, citation, etc. notify (no'ti-fi), v. t.; pret. and pp. notified , ppr. notifying . [ notifien , notifier , notefier, F. notifier , make known, 4027 Our notions of things are never simply commensurate with the things themselves; they are aspects of them, more or le exact, and sometimes a mistake ab initio. J. H. Newman , Gram, of A ent, iv. 2. A thought; a cognition. Conception and notion Reid seems to employ, at least sometimes, for cognition in general. Sir W. Hamilton, in Reid, Supplementary Di ertations, [note C. When God intended to reveal any future events or high notions to his prophets, he then carried them either to the deserts or the sea-shore. 1. Walton , Complete Angler, p. 40. Per. It seems, sir, you know all. Sir P. Not all, sir; but I have some general notions . B. Jonson, Volpone, ii. 1. Still did the Notions throng About his [Harvey's] El'quent Tongue. Cowley, Death of Harvey. We have more words than Notions, half a dozen words for the same thing. Selden, Table-Talk, p. 65. 3. In the Lockian philos., a complex idea. The mind often exercises an active power in making' these several combinations; for, it being once furnished with simple ideas, it can put them together in several compositions, and so make variety of complex ideas, without examining whether they exist so in natures, "And hence I think it is that these ideas are called notions, as if they had their original and constant existence more in the thoughts of men than in the reality of things. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xxii. § 2. 4. [Trans. of G. Begriff.] In the Hegelian philos., that comprehensive conception in which conflicting elements are recognized as mere factors of the whole truth.-5. An opinion; a sentiment; a view; especially, a somewhat vague belief, hastily caught up or founded on insufficient evidence and slight knowledge of the subject. Horace still charms with graceful negligence, And without method talks us into sense; Will, like a friend, familiarly convey The truest notions in the easiest way. Pope, E ay on Criticism. Yet I cannot think but that these people, who have such notions of a supreme Deity, might by the industry and ex IMG:content-1471.png:[blocks in formation] Let us resolve to render our actions and opinions perfectly consistent, that so our religion may appear to be, not a notional system, but a vital and fruitful principle of holine . Bp. Atterbury , Sermons, II. xiv. Who can say that he has any real, nay, any notional apprehension of a billion or a trillion? J. H. Newman, Gram. of A ent, iv. 2. Imaginary; ideal; existing in idea only; visionary; fantastical. All devotion being now plac'd in hearing sermons and discourses of speculative and notional things. Evelyn , Diary, Sept. 19, 1655. Fugitive Theme [happine ] Of my pursuing Verse, ideal Shade, Notional Good, by Fancy only made. Prior , Solomon, i. We must be wary lest we ascribe any real subsistence or personality to this nature or chance; for it is merely a Bentley. notional and imaginary thing. 3. Dealing in imaginary things; whimsical; fanciful: as, a notional man. I have premised these particulars before I enter on the main design of this paper, because I would not be thought altogether notional in what I have to say, and pa only for a projector in morality. Steele , Tatler, No. 125. Notional attribute or problem, an attribute or problem relating to second notions. The phrase is a substitute for the scholastic categorematic term . not if i car = It. not if i care, For Scripture is not the only law whereby God hath opened his will touching all things that may be done, but there are other kinds of laws which notify the will of God. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, ii. 2. Good and evil operate upon the mind of man, by those respective appellations by which they are notified and conveyed to the mind. South , Sermons. When he [Jesus) healed any person in private, without thus directing him to notify the cure, he then enjoined secrecy to him on purpose to obviate all po ible suspicions of art or contrivance. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. i. 2. To make note of; observe. Herde al this thynge Cryseyde wel ynogh, And every word gan for to notifie . Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 1591. 3. To give notice to; inform by words or writing, in person or by me age, or by any signs which are understood: as, the public are hereby notified.