Citations:note

English citations of note

Noun: notice

• 1588–93, Titus Andronicus, act II, scene III:

  The king, my brother, shall have note of this.

Noun: unclear sense

• 1859, Henry Morley, Notes on Bartholomew Fair, in Notes and Queries, second series, volume 7, page 471:

  Dr. Rimbault adds that there is an engraving of Joe which would have been worth reproducing. Possibly it would; but then I have note of a score of other engravings that will be a great deal more worth reproducing whenever more pictures are wanted.

• 1883, Henry B Brady, Syringammina, page 33:

  It appears to be essentially a deep-sea species, but of wide geographical distribution. I have note of its occurrence at five of the "Challenger" stations, of which one is in the North Atlantic, [...]

• 1869 July and October, The Westminster Review, volume 36 (92), page 518:

  Does not the whole history of human progress teach that the chief note of moral of spiritual regeneration is a death to the letter of the law and a new life in its spirit?

• 1920, F. J. Foakes-Jackson, Kirsopp Lake, The Beginnings of Christianity, part 1, The Acts of the Apostles, page 326 :

  The main note of these cults is the offer to men to become immortal or divine, and this is characteristically represented as the 'gift of the Spirit.'

Verb, from "no/ne+wot": "know not"

• 1590–96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto XII:

  Deare Sonne, great beene the evils which ye bore

  From first to last in your late enterprise,

  That I note whether prayse, or pitty more:

Noun: the period during which a cow gives milk

• 1875, Belfast Paper, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary:

  For sale, a Kerry cow, five years old, at her note in May.

archaic spelling of "not"

• 1590–96, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book II:

  And both her hands fast bound vnto a stake,

  That she note stirre.

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Middle English citations of note

Verb: need, use, make use of

• circa 1350, Joseph of Aramathie (Vernon MS fol. 403):

  þenne seis Seraphe · "scheuȝ me myn hache, and I schal note hit to-day · my strengþe is so newed."

Verb: need, have need of

• circa 1360–97, William Langland, Piers Plowman:

  Tyliers þat tyleden þe erthe · tolden here maystres

  By þe seed þat þei sewe · what þei shoulde notye,

  And what lyue by and lene · þe londe was so trewe.