Notable, (Hastings' Dictionary)

This word occurs with various meanings in AV, some of which are out of use. 1. Conspicuous, prominent, Dn 8° ‘the goat had a notable horn between his eyes’ (nig pp, Jit., as AVm, ‘a horn of sight’ or ‘of conspicnousness.’ So 8°, where, as alae in v.”, it is called ‘the great horn.’ 2. Clearly seen, illustrious (ἐπιφανής), used of 8 temple in 2 Mac 14", and of the Day of the Lord in Ac 2” (following the reading of the Sept.) 3. Excelling (εὐπρεπής), 2 Mac 3% ‘young men . notable in strength.

’ 4. Notorious (ἐπίσημος), Mt 27% ‘And they had then a notable prisoner, called Barabbas.’ Cf. Shaks. All’s Well, m1. vi. 10, ‘A most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar’; and South, Sermons, ii. Ser. 1, ‘A notable leading sinner indeed, to wit, the rebel.’ In Ro 167 the Gr. word is used in the sense of important, of mark, but is trans- lated ‘of note’in EV. The adj. ‘notable’ might τς been used, as in Rom.

of Partenay, line 41— ‘Unto this feste cam barons full many, Which notable were and ryght ful honeste.’ 5. Unmistakable, well-known (yworbs), Ac 419 ‘a notable miracle.’ Cf. Chaucer, Prioresses Tale, 233— “Ὁ yonge Hugh of P With Gareesd tewan, on ts acaetabiere For it nis but a litel whyle ago.’ 6. Noble, highminded (yevvaios), 2 Mac 65 ‘a notable example to such as be young to die willingly.’ In its τς occurrence notably has the same meaning as that last given for ‘notable,’ viz.

nobly, 2 Mac 14%! ‘he was notably erence by Judas’ ogg Of (γενναίως, RV ‘ brave y, RVm ‘nobly’). f. Berners, Froissart, ch. οἱ. ‘Wherefore they sayd, they wold send and defye the Frenche kyng notably : and so they did.’ The meaning is nearly the same in Shaks. Mids. Night’s Dream, V. i. 368 (his pan example of the word)—‘a fine tragedy + . and very notably discharged.’ i J. HASTINGs. _ NOTHING is sometimes used adverbially in AV, like ‘no-way,’ ‘naught,’ and ‘not’ (=‘no whit’).

We should now say ‘as nothing’ or ‘in no respect,’ for ‘nothing’ has completely lost its adverbial force. Thus 1K 10” ‘it [silver] was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon’ (3%; ἐδ); Job 34° ‘It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God’ (137735: ἐδ); 2 Mac 712 ‘he nothing regarded the pains’ (ἐν οὐδενί) ; 97 “he nothing st all ceased from his braggine’ (οὐδαμῶς, refused’ (οὐδὲν ἀπόβλητον, RV ‘nothing is to be rejected’), Cf. Lk 45. Rhem.

‘And when the Devil had throwen him into the middes, he went out of him, and hurted him nothing’; also the Annotation to Luke 195 in Rhem. NT, ‘The poore widowes brasse peny was very grateful, because it was al or much of that she had: but the riche man’s pound of his superfluitie, though 1t be good, yet is nothing so grateful.’ In Crusoe, p. 60, efoe uses the word almost as if it were ‘not’: ‘I was nothing near so anxious about my own safety.’ Abbott (Shaks. Gram. p. 46) quotes Henry VI/I. vy.

i. 126, ‘I fear nothing, what can be said against me,’ and points out that ‘what’ is not put for ‘which’; ‘nothing’ is equivalent to ‘not at all.’ In the phrase ‘nothing worth’ it is probable that ‘nothing’ is again adverbial, though we have but to transpose the words to find it a substantive. It occurs in Job 24% ‘who will make me a liar, and make my hee nothing worth?’ (dx); Wis 2" ‘That which is feeble is found to be nothing worth’ (ἄχρηστον, RV ‘of no service’); Bar 67 *, Cf. Jn 8% Tind.

‘Jesus answered, Yf I honoure my selfe, myne honoure is nothinge worth’ (οὐδέν ἐστιν, Wyc. ‘is nought,’ other vss ‘is nothing’). J. HAsTINGs.