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Inform
King James Dictionary
or INFORM', L. informo, to shape in and formo, forma, form.
Properly, to give form or shape to, but in this sense not used.
1. To animate to give life to to actuate by vital powers.
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 vital part.
This use is chiefly or wholly poetical.
2. To instruct to tell to to acquaint to communicate knowledge to to make known to by word or writing usually followed by of. Before we judge, we should be well informed of the facts relating to the case. A messenger arrived and informed the commander of the state of the troops. Letters from Europe inform us of the commencement of hostilities between the Persians and Turks.
3. To communicate a knowledge of facts to one by way of accusation.
Tertullus informed the governor against Paul. Acts 24
In this application the verb is usually intransitive as, A informed against B.
INFORM', To give intelligence.
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 to give intelligence of a breach of law. Two persons came to the magistrate, and informed against A.
INFORM', a. L. informis. Without regular form shapeless ugly.
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Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Inform'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/i/inform.html.
