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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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"Informing" Quotes from Famous Books

... manifoldness and largeness which is the most informing quality of a really cultivated man comes from a certain refinement in him, a gift of knowing by tasting. He seems to have touched the spirits of a thousand experiences we know he never has had, and they seem to have left the souls of sorrows and joys in him. ...

— The Lost Art of Reading • Gerald Stanley Lee

... might have pouted to learn that her lover had exhibited even a little cowardice in informing his family that he was engaged to be married. But Eva did not pout. She comprehended the situation, and the psychology of the relations between brothers and sisters. (She herself possessed both brothers and sisters.) All the courting had been singularly ...

— The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories • Arnold Bennett

... mezzo voce throughout, and when treated in this manner never fails to impress the hearer with its tenderness and beauty. At its close Pietro enters and once more rouses Masaniello to revenge by informing him that Alphonso has escaped. After they leave the cottage, the latter and Elvira enter and implore protection. Fenella is moved to mercy, and a concerted number follows in which Masaniello promises safety and is denounced by Pietro for his ...

— The Standard Operas (12th edition) • George P. Upton

... the great master of nature, has not forgot in his account of Catiline to remark, that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving[105] with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melanchthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he had made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspence; and all the plans and enterprises of De Witt are now ...

— Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill

... afterwards, and by his report of arms and ammunition confirmed this statement, informing the Baron, in a melancholy voice, that though the people would certainly obey his honour's orders, yet there was no chance of their following the gear to ony guid purpose, in respect there were only his honour's body servants who had swords and pistols, and the depredators were twelve Highlanders, ...

— Waverley • Sir Walter Scott

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