signalize

verb

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 excites in a man the idea of this diſtinction ſo very pleaſant.”

   “[T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […].”

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.”

   “An Author who points his ſatyr at a great man, is to be looked upon in the ſame view with the engineer who ſignalized himſelf by this ungenerous practice.”

   “He likewiſe pretended to ridicule the uſe of fire-arms, which confounded all the diſtinctions of ſkill and addreſs, and deprived a combatant of the opportunity of ſignalizing his personal proweſs.”

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.