signalize

verb signalizes · signalizing · signalized · signalise

1. British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive To distinguish, to make noteworthy. […] God has planted in man a ſenſe of ambition, and a ſatisfaction ariſing from the contemplation of his excelling his fellows in ſomething deemed valuable amongſt them. It is this paſſion that drives men to all the ways we ſee in uſe of ſignalizing themſelves, and that tends to make whatever excite
2. British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive To display or make known (an attribute, quality, etc.); to call attention to. [T]he great Creator hath likevviſe ſignalized his Care and Skill, by giving Animals an architectonick Faculty, to build themſelves convenient places of Retirement, in vvhich to repoſe and ſecure themſelves, and to nurſe up their Young.
3. British, English, Oxford, US, archaic, transitive To point out; to take special note of. This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history.
4. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive To communicate with (someone) by means of a signal. a ship signalizes its consort
5. British, English, Oxford, US, transitive To indicate; to be a sign of. And yet... looking here at this bottle which by its number signalized the day when Colonel Freeleigh had stumbled and fallen six feet into the earth, Douglas could not find so much as a gram of dark sediment[…]
6. British, Canada, English, Oxford, US, transitive To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal.