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Definition of Nota bene
1. Noun. A Latin phrase (or its abbreviation) used to indicate that special attention should be paid to something. "The margins of his book were generously supplied with pencilled NBs"
Definition of Nota bene
1. Interjection. (imperative) Take special note; ''used to add an aside or warning to a text''. ¹
2. Noun. (rare informal) An instance of the phrase (term nota bene) or its variant spellings. ¹
3. Noun. ''By extension (both senses also (rare sub=labelcat) and (informal sub=labelcat)):'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nota Bene
Literary usage of Nota bene
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Fruit Culturist, Containing Directions for the Propagation and by John J. Thomas (1849)
"... nota bene. Rather large, round, surface pale lilac brown, often dull green in
the shade ; bloom light blue, copious; stalk half an inch long, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United by Alexander James Dallas, Frederick Charles Brightly, United States Supreme Court (1905)
"It will be urged, however, that the allowance of damages only appears by the nota
bene subjoined to the judgment of the court below, and that this ought not ..."