apprize

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We never left the ship until after the land wind came from the lofty heights to apprize us, perhaps, that we might risk a visit, without becoming sublimed in perspiration.

From Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia by Wise, H. A. (Henry Augustus)

Each regiment and corps will apprize them of this, that ignorance may not be pleaded as an excuse.

From An Account of the Campaign in the West Indies, in the Year 1794, Under the Command of their Excellencies Lieutenant General Sir Charles Grey, K.B., and Vice Admiral Sir John Jervis, K.B. by Willyams, Cooper

I shall now act with more confidence, as my Sylph tells me he will watch over and apprize me of every danger.

From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana

Evidently, in spite of my protests, the priest concluded that I wanted an audience with Cardinal Newman, for saying that he would apprize him of my visit, he disappeared.

From Forty Years of 'Spy' by Ward, Leslie

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