apprize

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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

Spies were regularly employed in watching the warriors paths beyond the settlements, to detect their advance and to apprize the inhabitants of it.

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

There was a good deal of firing going on in the suburbs nearest to the position, which this Highlander thought it right to apprize his people of.

From Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by Surtees, William

Ought I not, at all risks, to apprize the Countess, who had trusted me so generously, or, as she said herself, so madly, of the fact that our secret was, at least, suspected by another?

From In a Glass Darkly, v. 2/3 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

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