``The informing Word.'' --Coleridge.
Let others better mold the running mass Of metals,
and inform the breathing brass. --Dryden.
Breath informs this fleeting frame. --Prior.
Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part.
--Pope.
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. --Spenser.
I am informed thoroughky of the cause. --Shak.
3. To communicate a knowledge of facts to,by way of
accusation; to warn against anybody.
Tertullus . . . informed the governor against Paul.
--Acts xxiv.
1.
Syn: To acquaint; apprise; tell; teach; instruct; enlighten;
animate; fashion.
It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine
eyes. --Shak.
2. To give intelligence or information; to tell. --Shak.
He might either teach in the same manner,or inform
how he had been taught. --Monthly Rev.
{To inform against}, to communicate facts by way of
accusation against; to denounce; as, two persons came to
the magistrate, and informed against A.