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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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... her power, and that being gone, nobody mourned for her, or lamented her death. The attention of the kingdom was soon universally absorbed in the plans for receiving and proclaiming the new monarch from the North, and in anticipations of the splendid pageantry which was to signalize his taking his seat ...

— Queen Elizabeth - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... shelves were too close to admit of setting in even a gravy-boat, but they made up in number what was wanting in space. We christened the whole affair, in honor of its projector, a "Davis," thus placing the first laurel on the brow of one who was afterwards to signalize himself in Cabinet making ...

— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... Delaware River with the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. Not to be outdone by their rival states, Maryland and Virginia agreed upon the construction of a canal from Chesapeake Bay to the Ohio River, and on July 4, 1828, President Adams dug the first spadeful of earth to signalize the beginning of the undertaking. Some financiers of Baltimore, dubious of the success of an effort to build a waterway over the difficult route adopted by the promoters of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, withdrew their support from that enterprise, ...

— Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States - 1789-1900 • T.W. van Mettre

... disobeyed this law of advancement more signally than Ralegh in relation to James. His egotism often before had blinded him to the idiosyncrasies of others. He seems to have been more than ordinarily incapable of comprehending those of his present ruler. He presumed eagerness in a young King to signalize his accession by feats of arms. The high spirit of James was the source from which he hoped to draw the motive force necessary for the accomplishment of his vast designs against the colonial empire of Spain. An accidental ...

— Sir Walter Ralegh - A Biography • William Stebbing

... and temporary levies of feudal nobles. Calm, solemn, and stately, they sat like towers upon their powerful chargers. On parades they manifested none of the show and ostentation of the other troops: neither, in battle, did they endeavor to signalize themselves by any fiery vivacity, or desperate and vainglorious exploit,—everything, with them, was measured and sedate; yet it was observed that none were more warlike in their appearance in the camp, or more terrible for their achievements ...

— Washington Irving • Charles Dudley Warner

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