3. The writing which communicates information; an advertisement, or
citation, etc.
No"ti*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Notified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Notifying (?).] [F. notifier, L. notificare; notus known (p. p. of
noscere to known) + - ficare (in comp.) to make. See Know, and -fy.]
1. To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a
person.
No law can bind till it be notified or promulged.
Sowth.
2. To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the
constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell
notifies us of the time of meeting.
The President of the United States has notified the House of
Representatives that he has approved and signed the act.
Journal of the Senate, U. S.
This application of notify has been condemned; but it is in constant
good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use
of certify.
No"tion (?), [L. notio, fr. noscere to know: cf. F. notion. See Know.]
1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a
conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as
distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ.
What hath been generally agreed on, I content myself to assume
under the notion of principles.
Sir I. Newton.
Few agree in their notions about these words.
Cheyne.
That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear
which is in the mind, is called the "idea" of hunger, cold, etc.