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to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion. "The informing Word." Coleridge. Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.…

onal, prescribed, or customary forms or rules; irregular; hence, without ceremony; as, an informal writting, proceeding, or visit.

The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings.

In an informal manner.

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The act of informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South.

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. [R.] London Spectator.

Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. [Obs.] Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.

One who informs, animates, or inspires. [Obs.] Thomson. Nature, informer of the poet's art. Pope.

Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. [Obs.] "Foe not informidable." Milton.

Want of regular form; shapelessness. [Obs.]

Of irregular form; shapeless. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

A misinformer.

Untrue or incorrect information. Bacon.

One who gives or incorrect information.

To inform, fill, or animate, excessively. [R.] Johnson.

Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.