notary
[noh-tuh-ree]
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Origin of notary
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Contemporary Examples
He will then hire a car to take the notary public to the prison on the day of the wedding.
Also in on the Davis con were Lydia Eileen Pearce, one of the owners of the Steward-Pearce Mortuary, and notary Barbara Ann Lynn.
Historical Examples
Go, my darling; call upon the notary, and tell him to be quick about you know what.
The Imaginary InvalidMolire
But you really understand these things like a banker or a notary.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
One does not tell these things in public either to the notary or to the priest.
A Comedy of Marriage and Other TalesGuy De Maupassant
He also was gazing at the lighted window over in the notary's house.
The DownfallEmile Zola
One fine morning he took her to a notary and made her sign a deed of sale.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
notary
- a notary public
- (formerly) a clerk licensed to prepare legal documents
- archaic a clerk or secretary
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Word Origin
C14: from Latin notārius clerk, from nota a mark, note
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Word Origin and History for notary
n.
c.1300, "clerk, secretary," from Old French notarie "scribe, clerk, secretary" (12c.) and directly from Latin notarius "shorthand writer, clerk, secretary," from notare, "to note," from nota "shorthand character, letter, note" (see note (v.)). Meaning "person authorized to attest contracts, etc." is from mid-14c.; especially in notary public (late 15c.), which has the French order of subject-adjective. Related: Notarial.
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