Not"a*ble (?), a. [F. notable, L. notabilis, fr. notare to mark, nota mark, note. See 5th Note.]
1.
Capable of being noted; noticeable; plan; evident.
2.
Worthy of notice; remarkable; memorable; noted or distinguished; as, a notable event, person.
⇒ Notable in the sense of careful, thrifty, characterized by thrift and capacity (as, a notable housekeeper) is pronounced by many good orthoepists, n&ocr;t"&adot;*b'l, the derivatives notableness, and notably, being also similarly pronounced with short o in the first syllable.
3.
Well-known; notorious.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
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Not"a*ble (?), n.
1.
A person, or thing, of distinction.
2. French Hist.
One of a number of persons, before the revolution of 1789, chiefly of the higher orders, appointed by the king to constitute a representative body.
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