notorious

adjectif

1. 1

   Senses with an unfavourable connotation. Of a person or entity: generally or widely known for something negative; infamous.

   Such Men theſe had, to Miſchiefe vvholly bent, / In Villanie, notorious for their skill, / Diſhoneſt, deſp'rate, mercileſſe, and rude, / That dar'd into Damnation to intrude.

   You notorious ſtinkardly bearevvard, do's my breath ſmell?

   But Rutilus, is ſo Notorious grovvn, / That he's the common Theme of all the Tovvn.

   A vvoman of quality, notorious for her gallantries, though as ſhe ſtill lived vvith her huſband, nobody choſe to place her in the claſs vvhere ſhe ought to have been placed, […]

2. 2

   Senses with an unfavourable connotation. Of an act, situation, etc.: blameworthy in an obvious and offensive way; blatant, flagrant.

   Sir, ſir, I ſhall haue Lavv in Epheſus, / To your notorious ſhame, I doubt it not.

   [T]he Apoſtle by the vvord diſorderly, does not mean perſons that live in any courſe of notorious ſin; but by diſorderly, he means Ignavos, Inutiles, idle and unprofitable perſons; perſons of no uſe to the Church, or to the State: […]

   [H]e vvas Charg'd upon Oath, vvith having been a Party in a notorious Robbery, Burglary, and Murther, committed ſo and ſo, in ſuch a Place, and on ſuch a Day.

3. 3

   Senses with a favourable or neutral connotation. Generally or widely known; of common knowledge; famous or well-known.

   Lett him [God] notorious make, / That in good part he did thy offrings take.

   Some vvill blame me for that I have omitted this and that tovvne and Caſtle, as though I purpoſed to mention any but ſuch as vvere moſt notorious, and vvere mentioned by ancient authours. Neither verily vvere it vvorth the labour once to name them, vvhen as beſide the naked name there is nothing memorable.

   Of Cham is the name Chemmis in Aegipt; and Ammon the Idol and Oracle ſo notorious.

   Mrs. Fl[eece'em]. Hymn? then the Doctor ſings, I preſume. / Mrs. Sim[ony]. Not a better pipe at the playhouſe; he has been long notorious for that: Then he is as chearful, and has ſuch a choice collection of ſongs!

4. 4

   obsolèteSenses with a favourable or neutral connotation. Clear, evident, obvious.

   For the elder ſort of them are rough, hard, thinne and leane ſcragges, ſtatuelinges, lothſome to touch and to looke vpon, ſomevvhat long, nothing but skinne and bone, yet very notorious and goodly too ſee to, in regard of their grauity, hoarenes and aunciency.

   It is not every possibility, every seeming, every faint show or glimmering appearance, which sufficeth to ground bad opinion or reproachful discourse concerning our brother: the matter should be clear, notorious, and palpable, before we admit a disadvantageous conceit into our head, a distasteful resentment into our heart, a harsh word into our mouth about him.

   [T]he failing in any one of theſe [members of the body] vvould cauſe Irregularity in the Body, and in many of them ſuch as vvould be very notorious.

5. 5

   obsolèteSenses with a favourable or neutral connotation. Generally or widely knowable.

   But what hope is there to haue fidelitie well kept amonge us in promises and bargaynes, whan for the breache therof is prouided no punisshement, nor yet notorious rebuke; […]

   They [legislative ordinances] were in some instances promulgated by the king in parliament. Others were sent thither for registration, or entry upon their records. This formality was by degrees, if not from the beginning, deemed essential to render them authentic and notorious, and therefore indirectly gave them sanction and validity of a law.

adverbe

1. 1

   obsolèteSynonym of notoriously.

Formes

comparatif

more notorious

superlatif

most notorious