The word 'signalize' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to talk about sending out a signal or making something known. For example, "The news of the company's success signalized that the business was on the upswing."
His book "William Shakespeare, a Biography", was just published in England, & will come out here in Jan., to signalize the 400th anniversary year of Shakespeare's birth.
— To learn to make no concessions of a personal social kind toward the academic, but also not to signalize in a personal way my separation from it.
Only an active being can therefore have knowledge, and the principal function of empirical knowledge "is that of an instrument enabling transition from the actual present to a future which is desired and which the present is believed to signalize" (Lewis (1946), 4).
He signalized his arrival by a bold and successful coup de main upon the great arsenal of Carthago Nova (Cartagena) in 209.
The Gandhi-Irwin Pact of March 1931, signed between Gandhi and the British viceroy, Lord Irwin (later Lord Halifax), signalized a truce between the two principal protagonists in India.
Indeed, it is primarily through liturgical utterances (e.g., the Lord's Prayer in Christianity), that religious identity is signalized and faith confessed in most religions.
In 1115 Aguda, the paramount chief of the Juchen, signalized the drastic decline of Khitan power by proclaiming the establishment of the Jin kingdom.
The western Allies had good reason to be profoundly dissatisfied with the poor results of their enterprises of 1916, and this dissatisfaction was signalized by two major changes made at the end of the year.
Lincoln was already the candidate of the "Union" (that is, the Republican) party for reelection to the presidency, and the Wade-Davis manifesto signalized a movement within the party to displace him as the party's nominee.
Almost universally, puberty rites include a period of instruction in adult responsibilities, rituals dramatizing the removal of boys from the mothers' care and signalizing the changed social relations between boys and girls of the same generation, and physical ordeals, including scarification or some other mark that will permanently demonstrate the successful passage to manhood.
The Byzantine emperor might well have believed that, if the earlier success of the Persians signalized the resurrection of the Achaemenid empire, his own successes had realized the dreams of Caesar, Augustus, and Trajan.
