notitia

/ nəʊˈtɪʃɪə /

noun

1. a register or list, esp of ecclesiastical districts

Word History and Origins

Origin of notitia¹

C18: Latin, literally: knowledge, from notus known

Example Sentences

The late, great psychologist James Hillman wrote: Attention to the qualities of things resurrects the old idea of notitia as a primary activity of the soul.

From Forbes

Notitia refers to that capacity to form true notions of things from attentive noticing.

From Forbes

Quamobrem exquiritur utrum in Hibernia habeatur notitia hujus Episcopi Thaddei Machar—loci ubi natus fuerit,—ejus familiae, quae regia seu princeps supponitur in poesi,—civitatis seu ecclesiae in qua fuerit Episcopus.

From Project Gutenberg

The vindication of monks in general, from the aspersions cast on them by their enemies, and the facts appertaining to the Rebellion of 1641, are borrowed exclusively from Protestant sources,—Dugdale’s Monasticon Anglicanum, Tanner’s Notitia Monastica, Maitland’s Dark Ages, Leland’s History of Ireland, Temple’s History of the Insurrection, 1641, Tichborne’s History of the Siege of Drogheda, Carte’s Ormond, etc.

From Project Gutenberg

This is mentioned in Braun Notitia de libris in Bibliotheca Monasterii ad SS.

From Project Gutenberg