apprize

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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

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)

The services of Augustus and the Indian lads being no longer required, I despatched them to the Fort, to apprize the party there of our approach.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

She did not apprize her friend of her intention.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

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