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To teach or instruct by preaching; to inform by preaching. [R.] "As ye are preached." Southey.

Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as, a premonition of danger.

To collude, as where an informer colludes with the defendant, and makes a sham prosecution.

To inform beforehand; to warn. Ld. Lytton.

, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

v. Diligent inquiries into remote and problematical guilt leave a gate wide open to . . . informers. Swift.

An edict published for public information; an official bulletin; a public proclamation.

To urge on or incite another, as to strife; also, to inform against a person. [Obs.]

An informer; a makebate. [Obs.] Tusser.

pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.

ates of the United States having the initiative or referendum, is mailed to the voters to inform them as to the nature of a measure submitted by the initiative or referendum. The pamphlet contains a copy of the proposed law and arguments for and against it by those favoring and opposing it, respectively.…

t questioning or plying; to question or ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money, etc. But pump not me for politics. Otway.

Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required in the exercise of a particular authority, recourse must be had to the objects within the purview of that authority. Madison.

taken in quantities, that is, in large quantities. The quantity of extensive and curious information which he had picked up during many months of desultory, but not unprofitable, study. Macaulay. Quantity of estate (Law), its time of continuance, or degree of interest, as in fee, for life, or for years. Wharton (Law D…

One who lays informations, and encourages petty lawsuits. [Obs.] Bacon.

e offend . . . by rashness, which is an affirming or denying, before we have sufficiently informed ourselves. South.

o have a copy of the same entered in the records of the office designated by law, for the information of the public.

To direct inquiry for information or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

A private person at whose relation, or in whose behalf, the attorney-general allows an information in the nature of a quo warranto to be filed.

To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision. "Whether the counsel be good Iremit it to the wise readers." Sir T. Elyot.