dignotion

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin dignoscere (“to distinguish”), from di-, dis- + gnoscere, noscere (“to learn to know”).

Noun edit

dignotion (plural dignotions)

(obsolete) distinguishing mark; diagnostic
- 1646/50, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:
  That temperamentall dignotions, and conjecture of prevalent humours, may be collected from spots in our nails, we are not averse to concede.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dignotion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)