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Signalize v. t. (past & past part. signalized; pres. part. signalizing)

To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. "It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves."

To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship signalizes its consort.

To indicate the existence, presence, or fact of, by a signal; as, to signalize the arrival of a steamer.

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Etymology of 'Signalize'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Signalize" Quotes from Famous Books

... Calling", "Meaning Motion"; and from a fourth, "Terror", "Picnic Remembered", "Eidolon", and "Monologue at Midnight". Here are individual assertions, suggestive of individual ways of looking at things; here are headings that signalize particular events in the authors' experience,—moments' monuments. Beside them, Johnson's title, "The Vanity of Human Wishes", looks very dogged ...

— The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) • Samuel Johnson

... he better signalize his disposition to work, than upon an occasion like the present; which generally attracts every soul on deck, from the captain to ...

— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville

... altar after the manner of one who could see; then walk from right to left, lay the five fingers of his right hand on the altar, then raise up his hand and place it on his eyes.' And behold! the multitude saw the blind man open his eyes, and they rejoiced, such splendid miracles should signalize the reign of ...

— Thaumaturgia • An Oxonian

... with greater difficulty in the arrangement of it than this; and there is, perhaps, none which has been inveighed against with less candor or criticised with less judgment. Here the writers against the Constitution seem to have taken pains to signalize their talent of misrepresentation. Calculating upon the aversion of the people to monarchy, they have endeavored to enlist all their jealousies and apprehensions in opposition to the intended President of the United States; not merely as the embryo, but as the full-grown progeny, of that detested ...

— The Federalist Papers

... pour out coffee. They all three looked at each other, joyous, naughty, strategic; and the thing of which they were least conscious, in that moment of expectancy, was precisely the thing that the lustrous trifles hidden beneath the basin were meant to signalize: namely, the passage of years and the approach of age. Mr. Knight's hair was grey; Mrs. Knight, once a slim bride of twenty-seven, was now a stout matron of thirty-nine, with a tendency to pant after the most modest feats of stair-climbing; and Aunt Annie, only the other day a pretty girl ...

— A Great Man - A Frolic • Arnold Bennett

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