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  • verb Present participle of apprize.

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Examples

  • Eugenia herself, though Mrs. Tyrold had exerted her utmost authority to prevent Sir Hugh from apprizing her of it in form.

    Camilla 2008

  • I noticed a small boy, delicate of bone and feature, ragged but clean, hungrily apprizing a basket of freshly picked green peas.

    grouse Diary Entry grouse 2007

  • But what must be the grief, the remorse, that will seize upon the hearts of this hitherto-inexorable family, on the receiving of the posthumous letters, and that of the Colonel apprizing them of what has happened?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But how wilt thou hinder the lady from apprizing her friend of the real name?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • “Pardon me, and a truce to your ill-timed mirth, Mr. Mareschal; this morning we were not committed publicly, as we now stand committed by your own mad act, when you had a letter in your pocket apprizing you that our undertaking was desperate.”

    The Black Dwarf 2004

  • He then explained to her that he was in the act of leaving Whitefriars in a few hours — that his future destination was uncertain, but that he desired anxiously to know whether he could contribute to her protection by apprizing any friend of her situation, or otherwise.

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • He sends Carnegie a telegraph apprizing him of the situation but telling him, you know, I'm still in control and then finally they convince him to go home and recuperate.

    Carnegie 2002

  • Without replying, or in the least apprizing me, he ordered the man who brought the game to go in quest of his physician, and tell him, he waited for him at my house.

    History of Louisisana Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing -1775 Le Page du Pratz

  • Master of Malta: apprizing him, that he was hastening to prevent that island from falling into the hands of the common enemy; and instructing him how to proceed till his arrival, which might be expected the following Friday.

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

  • With one quick apprizing glance the girl took in the two young men.

    Wild Wings A Romance of Youth Margaret Rebecca Piper

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