Notidanidae 
thartlirous sharks, rapXVM&ted l>y the genus 
\iititlttHHx; I lie cmv-sh:irks. Tln-r M lachians have 
six or seven frill-sacs, spiracles, onu dorsal tin. no winker 
or third eyi-liil, ;irnl iliiirn-rithitnl ircii], the lower being 
ninslly bnutl and with UN oblique ik'iitatr biinltT, while 
the upper an- au l-.shaiit.'ii or paucidcntate. Some attain a 
length of 15 feet, and range widely in tropical and warm 
t'-inpiTali- s-MH. Sec 11' /', nn !,i, . m<l lli'Sdnchus. .Also 
callrd \:,ti'l'iui \ittidanaidcn, and llexaiu-l. 
notidanidan (nG-ti-djin'i-diiii}, n. [< Xutidimi- 
iln- + -.] A cow-shark. IHi-lnn-ihnii. 
Notidanus (no-tid'a-nus), . [NL., < Gr. vun- 
hu-iit;, with sharp-pointed dorsal fin (applied to 
a shark), < VUTOC, tne back, + tfav&c., fair, come- 
ly, < ideiv, see.] The typical genus of Xntln- 
niilii: Also called Hexanchit.i (which see for 
cut). 
notifiable (uo'ti-fl-a-bl), . [< M/IT V + -able.] 
That must be made known, as to a board of 
health or some other authority. 
The death-rates from notifiable diseases being respec- 
tively 1.05 and 1.01. l.ii, a': I, No. 3440, p. 566. 
notification (no'ti-fi-ka'shgn), . [= F. noti- 
fication = Sp. notification = Pg. notijicaqUo = It. 
notificazione, < ML. otytoaHo(ft-), < L. notifi- 
care, make known: see notify.] 1. The act of 
notifying or giving notice ; the act of making 
known, publishing, or proclaiming. 
God, in the notification of this name, sends us sufficiently 
Instructed to establish you in the assurance of an everlast- 
ing 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 depressed out of 
their order, either in breadth or longways, may, by agree- 
ment, give great variety of notifications. 
Holder, Elements of Speech, p. 4. (Latham.) 
4. The writing which communicates informa- 
tion ; an advertisement, citation, etc. 
notify (uo'ti-fi), v. C.: pret. and pp. notified, 
ppr. notifying. [< ME. notiften, < OF. notifier, 
notefier, F. notifier, make known, = Sp. Pg. 
notificar = It. notificare, < L. notificare, make 
known, < notus, pp. of noscere, know, +'facere, 
do, make: see note 1 , a., and -fy.'] 1. To pub- 
lish; proclaim; give notice or information of; 
make known. 
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. 
Boater, Eccles. Polity, U. 2. 
Good and evil operate upon the mind of man, by those 
respective appellations by which they are notified and con- 
veyed to the mind. South, Sermons. 
When he [Jesus) healed any person in private, without 
thus directing him to nntij'u the cure, he then enjoined 
secrecy to him on purpose to obviate all possible suspi- 
cious of art or contrivance. Up. Atterbury, Sermons, II. I. 
2. To make note of ; observe. 
Herde al this thyngo Cryseyde wel ynogh, 
And every word gan for to notifie. 
Chaucer, Troilus, it 1591. 
3. To give notice to; inform by words or writ- 
ing, in person or by message, or by any signs 
which are understood : as, the public are hereby 
notified. 
notion (no'shon), n. [< OF. notion, F. notion 
= Pr. nocio = Sp. nocion = Pg. noqao = It. no- 
zione, < L. notio(n-), a becoming acquainted, 
a taking cognizance, an examination, an in- 
vestigation, a conception, idea, notion, < nos- 
cere, pp. notug, know: see note 1 .] 1. A general 
concept; a mental representation of a state 
of things. Thus, the Kener.il enunciation of a geomet- 
rical theorem Is comprehended by means of notiona, and 
only in that way can the property to be proved be flrmly 
seized by the mind, and kept distinct from other proper- 
ties of the same figure ; but in order to prove the theorem 
a construction or diagram is requisite, involving a repre- 
sentation in the imagination capable of being studied so 
as to observe hitherto unknown relations in it. 
A complexion of notions is nothing else but an affirma- 
tiou or negation in the understanding or speech. 
Buryersdiciui, tr. by a Gentleman, I. II. 4. 
Concept or notion are terms employed as convertible; 
but, while they denote the same thing, they denote it in 
a different point of view. Conception, the act of which 
concept is the result, expresses the act of comprehend- 
ing or grasping up into unity the various qualities by 
which an object is characterized ; notion, again, signifies 
either the act of apprehending, signalizing that is, thr 
i ^marking or taking note of the various notes, marks, or 
characters of an object which it- qualities afford ; or the 
result of that act. . . . The term notion, like conception, 
r\inrsses both an act and its product. 
.SYr H'. Hamilton, Lectures on Logic, vii. 
He had scarce any other notion of religion, but that it 
consisted in hating Presbyterians. 
Addison, Tory Foxhunter. 
A notion may be inaccurate by being too wide. 
J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 369. 
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Our notion* of things are never simply commemrarate 
with the things themselves; they are aspecU of them, 
more or leu exact, and tometimei a mistake ab Inltio. 
J. U. Xfirman, Gram, of Assent, iv. 
2. A thought; a cognition. 
Conception and nation Reid teems to employ, at Iet 
sometimes, for cognition in general. 
Sir W. Hamilton, In Reid, Supplementary Dissertations, 
[nod' i 
\Vln-n (iod intended to reveal any future events or hluli 
notioni to his prophets, he then carried them either to the 
deserts or the sea-shore. 
/. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 40. 
Per. It seema. sir, you know all. 
Sir P. Not all, sir ; but 
I have some general notion*. 
B. Jonton, Volpone, II. 1. 
Still did the Notions throng 
About his [Harvey a] El'quent Tongue. 
CoiHey, 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 Lorkian nhilos., a complex idea. 
The mind often exercises an active power hi makkig 
these several combinations ; for, It being once furnUhcd 
with simple ideas, it can put them together in several 
compositions, and so make variety of complex Ideas, with- 
out examining whether they exist so in nature. 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, if xxii. I 2. 
4. [Trans, of G. Begriff.] In the tfeyclianphilos., 
that comprehensive conception in which con- 
flicting elements are recognized as mere fac- 
tors of the whole truth. 5. An opinion; a sen- 
timent ; a view ; especially, a somewhat vague 
belief, hastily caught up or founded on insuf- 
ficient 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, Essay on Criticism. 
Yet I cannot think but that these people, who have such 
notions of a supreme Deity, might by the industry and ex- 
ample of good men be brought to embrace the Christian 
faith. Dawpier, Voyages, II. i. 8. 
They are for holding their notions, though all other men 
be against them. Banyan, Pilgrim's Progress, p. 165. 
After travelling three or four miles In this valley, we 
came to a road that leads eastward to Moses's mosque, 
where the Arabs have a notion that Moses was buried, and 
some of the .Mahometans went to it. 
Pococlce, Description of the East, II. 1. 30. 
Now I've a notion, if a poet 
Beat up for themes, his verse will show it. 
Lowell, Epistle to a Friend. 
I believe that the great mass of mankind have not the 
faintest notion that slavery was an ancient English insti- 
tution. E. A. Freeman, Amer. Lects., p. 180. 
6. A desire, inclination, intention, or senti- 
ment, generally not very deep nor rational ; a 
caprice ; a whim. 
I have no notion of going to anybody's house, and have 
the servants look on the arms of the chalae to find out 
one's name. Walpole, Letters, II. 33. 
They talk of principles, but notions prize, 
And all to one loved folly sacrifice. Pope. 
The boy might get a notion Into him, 
The girl might be entangled e'er she knew. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
There was tobacco, too, placed like the cotton where it 
was hoped it would take a notion to grow. 
C. A,'. Craddoclc, Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains, ii. 
7. The mind ; the power of knowledge ; the un- 
derstanding. 
His notion weakens, his dlscernings 
Are let bunded. Shale., Lear, L 4. 247. 
The acts of God ... to human ears 
Cannot without process of speech be told. 
So told as earthly notion can receive. 
Milton. P. L, vil. 179. 
8. In a concrete sense, a small article of con- 
venience; a utensil; some small useful article 
involving ingenuity or inventiveness in its con- 
ception or manufacture : commonly in the plu- 
ral. 
And other worlds send odours, sauce, and song, 
And robes, and notion* framed in foreign looms. 
Young. 
They (the Yankees] continued to throng to New Amster- 
dam with the most innocent countenances imaginable, 
filling the market with their notion*, being aa ready to 
trade with the Nederlanders as ever. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 225. 
Cognate, common, complex notion. See the adjec- 
tives. First notion, a concept formed by direct gener- 
alization and abstraction from the particulars coming 
under that concept. Involution of notions. Seeinuo- 
(lition. Second notion, a notion formed by reflection 
upon other notions or symbols, with generalization and 
abstraction from tlirin. Under the notion, under the 
concept, class, category, designation. 
What hath been generally agreed on I content myself 
to assume under the notion of principles. 
Xeit-tiin, Optlcks. 
notobranchiate 
The Franciscans of the convent of Jerusalem have a 
small place here, coining unilir the notion of physician*, 
thu' they wear their liahit. 
Pococlce, Description of the East, I. 63. 
Yankee notions, small or Inexpensive miscellaneous ar- 
ticles such as are produced by Yankee invcutlvtneM. 8e 
def. 8. 
American goods of all kinds, brought from California, 
suddenly made their appearance In the village shopn ; and 
. . . laawthe American tin-ware, lanterns, and -Yankee 
notions." U. Kennan, The Century, XXXVI11. 82. 
= 8vn. 1 and 3. Impression, fancy, 
notional (no'shon-al), a. [= OF. notionel = Sp. 
Pg. notional; as notion + -n/.] 1. Pertaining 
to or expressing a notion or general concep- 
tion; formed by abstraction and generaliza- 
tion; also, produced by metaphysical or logical 
reflection. 
Let n> ... resolve to render our actions and opinions 
perfectly consistent, that so our religion may appear to be, 
not a notional system, bat a vital and fruitful principle of 
holiness. Bp. AUerbury, Kermona, II. xiv. 
Who can say that he has any real, nay, any notional ap- 
prehension of a billion or a trillion'.' 
J. H. Xricman, Gram, of Assent, 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, 1665. 
Fugitive Theme I happiness! 
Of my pursuing Verse, ideal shade, 
Notional Good, by Fancy only made. 
Prior, Solomon, L 
We must be wary lest we ascribe any real subsistence 
or personality to this nature or chance ; for it Is merely a 
notional and Imaginary thing. ISentlry. 
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 pasa only 
for a projector lu morality. Steele, Taller, No. 125. 
Notional attribute or problem, an allribnte or problem 
relating to second notions. The phrase la a substitute 
for the scholastic categoreinatic term. 
notionalityt (no-shq-nal'i-ti), n. [< notional 
+ -ity.] The quality or condition of being 
merely notional or fanciful; empty, unground- 
ed opinion. 
I aimed at the advance of science by discrediting empty 
and talkative nationality. 
GtanrOle, Vanity of Dogmatizing, xvli 
nationally (no'shon-al-i), adv. In a notional 
manner; in mental apprehension; in concep- 
tion ; hence, not in reality. 
Two faculties . . . nationally or really distinct. 
Xorrw, -Miscellanies. 
notionate (no'shon-at), a. [< notion + -atei.] 
Notional; fanciful. Monthly Rev. [Rare.] 
notionistt (uo'shon-ist), n. [< notion + -<*<.] 
One who holds fanciful or ungrounded opinions. 
lip. Hopkins, Expos, of the Lord's Prayer. 
notist (no'tist), n. [< nctel + -tot.] An anno- 
tator. Webster. [Rare.] 
notitia (uo-tish'iii), n. [L.: see notice.'] A re- 
gister or roll ; a list, as of gifts to a monastery ; 
under the Roman empire, an official list of local- 
ities and government functionaries divided ac- 
cording to the provinces, the dioceses, or groups 
of provinces, etc., of the Roman empire ; hence, 
ecclea., a list of episcopal sees, arranged accord- 
ing to the corresponding ecclesiastical divisions 
of provinces, etc. 
I procured, through the klndqees of a Jacobite Priest, 
... an official notitia of fhe Sees which belong lo the Cop- 
tic Communion in Egypt. 
J. M. Xealf, Eastern Church, Pref. 
notitiont, . [< OF. noticion, irreg. < L. notitia, 
knowledge: see wofi'of .] Knowledge; informa- 
tion. Fabyan. 
Notkerian (not-ke'ri-an), a. [< Xotker (see 
def.) + -iow.] Of or pertaining to one of sev- 
eral monks named Nptker, belonging to the 
monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland. The best- 
known of these la Notker Balbulus (about 840-912). cele- 
brated for his services to church music and hymnody. es- 
pecially for his invention of sequences and proses. See 
sequence. Encyc. Brit., XII. 683. 
Notobranchia (no-to-brang'ki-a), n.pl. [NL., 
<Gr. vorof, also I-UTOV, the back, + pp&yxia, the 
gills.] Same as yotobrnnchiata, 2. 
Notobranchiata (no-to-brang-ki-a'ta), . pi. 
[NL.: see notobranchiate.] 1 . The errant ma- 
rine annelids, an order of worms having gills 
along the back. Also called Dorsibranchiata. 
2. In conch., a group of nudibranchiate gastro- 
pods having the gills on the back. These organs 
are diversiform, ami according to their form or arrange- 
ment the notobranchlates have been divided into CVrato- 
brane hiata, Cladobranehiata, and Pygobranchiattt. 
notobranchiate (no-to-brang'ki-at). a. and . 
[< NL. nolobrancniatus, < Gr. vurof, the back, + 
