notify
- 01 C2 Proficiency
to make a fact or piece of information known to the public.
to make something known or public. This sense is no longer used in modern speech and is found only in historical texts.
Simple“The king's messenger arrived to notify the new laws to the people in the square.”
In context“In the ancient chronicle, the author sought to notify the glorious deeds of his ancestors to future generations.”
“Police said Saturday that officers were conducting proactive patrols in the downtown area when they were notified by security of an incident at a bar on St.”
“Avon and Somerset Police confirmed they had been notified by Romanian local authorities that a body had been found in the region.”
From Middle English notifien, a borrowing from Old French notifier, notefiier.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.