make mention of

English

Verb

make mention of (third-person singular simple present makes mention of, present participle making mention of, simple past and past participle made mention of)

1. (idiomatic, formal) To briefly refer to something; to mention.
   • 1699, John Edwards, A compleat history, or Survey of all the dispensations and methods of religion, volume 1:

     Likewiſe, whereſoever New Heavens, and a New Earth, are made mention of in the Bible, he underſtands them of a New Material World, whenas there was no ſuch Thing intended; for theſe Terms denote only a new State and Face of Things, viz. that bleſſed Millennium before treated of.

   • 1850, Charles Ferme, A Logical Analysis of the Epistle of Paul to the Romans‎^[1], Wodrow Society, page 5:

     Moreover he assures them that he thus made mention of them, by an appeal to Deity, and describes God, as the witness of his anxiety, by the adjunct of his own service; "For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his son."

   • 1902, Thomas Edgar Pemberton, Ellen Terry and Her Sisters, pages 140–141:

     Before taking leave of "The Wandering Heir" I must make mention of Edmund Leathes, who was the original James Annesley of the cast. He was a gifted as well as a graceful actor, he made his name as an author, and he vanished from us all too soon.

   • 1999 November 7, Deanne Stillman, “Blossoming in a Barren Landscape”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     The visitors were making mention of telephone pour reveiller -- thanks to a strange, instant recall of my elementary school French, which I hadn't uttered in years, I understood immediately and told the clerk they wanted wake-up calls.

   • 2018 March 18, Erik White, “What the Ontario budget means for an isolated Indigenous community”, in CBC‎^[3]:

     The Ontario budget makes mention of an existing Indigenous economic development fund, as well as many investments in off reserve communities, such as $4.5 million in northern Ontario housing funding.

References

• “make mention of”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.