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verb

Inform v. t. (past & past part. informed; pres. part. informing)

1.

To give form or share to; to give vital or organizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. "The informing Word." "Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass." "Breath informs this fleeting frame." "Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part."

2.

To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; usually followed by of. "For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily." "I am informed thoroughly of the cause."

3.

To communicate a knowledge of facts to, by way of accusation; to warn against anybody. "Tertullus... informed the governor against Paul."

Synonyms: To acquaint; apprise; tell; teach; instruct; enlighten; animate; fashion.

Inform v. t.

1.

To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear. (Obs.) "It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes."

2.

To give intelligence or information; to tell. "He might either teach in the same manner, or inform how he had been taught."

To inform against, to communicate facts by way of accusation against; to denounce; as, two persons came to the magistrate, and informed against A.

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Etymology of 'Informing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Informing" Quotes from Famous Books

... We may, therefore, if we choose, imagine the philosopher on that day, being then in his fifty-first year, walking through the streets of this metropolis of America (a town of something less than twenty thousand inhabitants) to his modest home, and there informing his "Dear Debby" that her husband, now apparently become a great man in a small world, was ordered immediately "home ...

— The Eve of the Revolution - A Chronicle of the Breach with England, Volume 11 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Carl Becker

... to you and you had been given special leave of forty-eight hours to make all necessary preparations, would not you have gone where your more impressionable acquaintances and friends were gathered together in the greatest numbers, informing them of the position and doing, on the strength of it, a quiet but irretrievable swank? No ostentation, mark you, and nothing approaching a boast, but just a suspicion of a brave careless laugh, a voice just slightly choked with emotion and but a formal reluctance to accept the numerous ...

— Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, December 16, 1914 • Various

... had I a more attentive audience. I addressed them in a natural manner, informing them that I desired to become familiar with a few of their forms and customs of life. I then proceeded to give them a description of the world whence I had come. My audience became enthusiastic and I decided ...

— Life in a Thousand Worlds • William Shuler Harris

... constituted himself the presiding officer of the assemblage that had been gathered under no special auspices and by no formal call. It was a flocking together of those uneasy persons who had been informing one another that they wanted to be shown! Mr. Lanigan's unconventional methods in the chair were tolerated because he had displayed much alacrity in putting the mob in the way of securing information from such high authority as the mayor of Marion. Chairman Lanigan's compelling ...

— All-Wool Morrison • Holman Day

... there was no happiness for our unfortunate family: chagrin, sickness, enemies, all seemed to conspire against us. A short while after her death my father received a letter from the chemist at Paris, informing him that the sample of potass which he had sent to France was nothing but marine salt, and some particles of potass and saltpetre. This news, although disagreeable, did not affect us, because we had still greater ...

— Perils and Captivity • Charlotte-Adelaide [nee Picard] Dard

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