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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of apprize.

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Examples

  • I thank you for that excellent mixture of truth advice, and raillery contain'd in your long letter, which ought to have been answerd immediately, but being so well apprized of your patients 'case you will the more readily forgive his neglect, which has chiefly proceeded from absolute inability to think or feel in the right humour.

    Letter 283 2009

  • Park on the subject of the Doctors Bill, and apprized him that Charlotte will call upon him next week, not before, for he may be out.

    Letter 357 2009

  • We could not communicate with him and advise his coming however without first informing you of the facts - Having therefore apprized you of the facts and the imperative necessity of our action, we hope you will not only not oppose his coming, but cheerfully give him any assistance that may be required towards securing a passage to Shanghai.

    Letter to Rev Messrs. Hall & InnocentNov. 19 1866 2008

  • When, for example, will taxpayers ever be apprized of the realities that will have allowed banks to market packaged toxic assets to funds, with the taxpayers, through the deft fingers of Geithner, guaranteeing the losses? ...

    Obama's Private Economic Conundrum 2009

  • Being fully apprized of the hoax and of his falling for it, Limbaugh acknowledges on the air that it was a hoax and one he'd been taken in by.

    Rush Limbaugh's Notions and the Terrorism of the Minority Report 2009

  • Are these questions of which India is likely to be apprized?

    WSJIDEBATE: Should India Consider U.S. Mediation With Pakistan? 2009

  • Billaud Varennes – You will shudder with horror when you are apprized that the armed force of Paris is entrusted into parricidal hands.

    Moniteur/Morning Chronicle 2007

  • Billaud Varennes – You will shudder with horror when you are apprized that the armed force of Paris is entrusted into parricidal hands.

    Newspapers 2007

  • The chamberlain at the same time apprized the Ritt-master, that he must take horse at an early hour for Inverary, where the packet of Sir Duncan would be at once his introduction and his passport.

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • MADAM, — As my son has never apprized me of the extraordinary step which your letter intimates, I am too unwilling to believe him capable of so far forgetting what he owes his family, to ratify any such intimation by interfering with my counsel or opinion. —

    Cecilia 2008

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