1. Roman law. Knowledge; information. • This term carried over for a time into English practice.
2. Roman law. A list; register; catalogue. • The Notitia Dignitatum (dig-ni-tay-t[schwa]m) was a list of the high offices in the Eastern and Western parts of the empire, complied in the late fourth or early fifth century A.D.
3. Hist. Notice.
4. A list of ecclesiastical sees.