signalise

verb6

1. •
   To communicate with (someone) by means of a signal.

   • a ship signalizes its consort
2. •
   To indicate; to be a sign of.
3. •
   (US, Canada) To furnish (a traffic intersection) with a traffic signal.
4. •
   (no longer used) To display or make known (an attribute, quality, etc.); to call attention to.

   • 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. — 1716
5. •
   (no longer used) To point out; to take special note of.

   • This expression rex Anglorum is rightly signalised by historians as a milestone in our history. — 1956
6. •
   (no longer used) To distinguish, to make noteworthy.

   • [T]he reign of the Tudors was often signalized by the valour of our soldiers and sailors […]. — 1789