apprize

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Tell her, you would think it your duty to apprize her parents of the danger into which she was throwing herself.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester

This is not meant as an appeal to authority, but to apprize such of our readers as wish to consider the argument, where they may meet an accurate investigation of the subject.

From Practical Education, Volume II by Edgeworth, Maria

When Chichimeclatecl received information of this, he instantly returned to Tezcuco in order to apprize Cortes of it.

From The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 2 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Díaz del Castillo, Bernal

John Stuart, and requesting of him, to apprize the inhabitants on the Greenbrier river that an immediate war was anticipated, and to send out scouts to watch the warrior’s paths beyond the settlements.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Let it stand, then, in the present state of our knowledge, merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.

From Nature by Emerson, Ralph Waldo