advertise, advertize

t. & i. [O. Fr. advert is sant, pr. par. of advertir; Fr. avertir; Ital. avvisare Lat. adverto.] [ADVERT.] A. Transitive: *1. Gen.: To notify, to inform, to give intelligence to. "I have advertiz'd him by secret means."-Shakesp.: Henry VI ., Part III ., iv. 5. "And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants " -Ruth iv. 4. "I was advertised their general slept." Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , il. 2 2. Spec.: To publish in a newspaper, or in some similar way, a paragraph generally designed to promote the financial or other interests of the person who seeks its insertion. [ADVERTISEMENT, III. 2.] "By statute 25 Geo. II.. c. 36, even to advertise a reward for the return of things stolen, with no questions asked, or words to the same purport, subjects the advertiser and the printer to a forfeiture of £50 each."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. iv., ch. 10. B. Intransitive : To publish an advertisement in a newspaper, or in any other way give it currency. Formerly used sometimes with upon , so as to make a compound transitive verb. do advertise upon that learned knight, my very worthy friend." Sir Wm. Read: Tatler , No. 224. ăd'-ver-tīşed, ăd'-ver-tīzed, pa . par . [ADVERTISE, ADVERTIZE.]