No"tion (?), [L. notio, fr.
noscere to know: cf. F. notion. See Know.]
1. Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or
imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or
universal conception, as distinguishable or definable by marks or notæ. What hath been generally agreed on, I content
myself to assume under the notion of principles. Sir I. Newton. Few
agree in their notions about these words. Cheyne.
That notion of hunger, cold, sound, color, thought, wish, or fear which
is in the mind, is called the "idea" of
hunger, cold,
etc. I. Watts.
Notion, again, signifies either the act of
apprehending, signalizing, that is, the remarking or taking note of, the various notes, marks, or
characters of an object which its qualities afford, or the result
of that act. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. A sentiment; an opinion.
The extravagant notion
they entertain of themselves.
Addison. A perverse will easily collects together a system of
notions to justify itself in its
obliquity. J.
H. Newman. 3. Sense; mind. [Obs.]
Shak. 4. An invention; an ingenious device; a knickknack; as, Yankee notions.
[Colloq.] 5. Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it. [Colloq.]
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