Verb (used with object), : to be apprised of the death of an old friend.    From Dictionary.com. 

“Villain! why didst thou not apprize me of this yesterday?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Count Robert of Paris] Reference

I stole forth to apprize Mirza Shah that my mission was achieved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Destiny] Reference

'I come, my lord,' said he, 'to apprize thee of the treachery of Osmyn.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almoran and Hamet] Reference

It may be proper on this occasion to apprize the reader that the notes to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805] Reference

HAMET, he felt a secret desire to apprize him of his situation, and offer him his friendship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almoran and Hamet] Reference

My aunt looked in first; O my dear, said she, are you there? and withdrew hastily to apprize them of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Lady Margaret knew her errand well enough by one Mrs. MacDonald, who had gone a little before to apprize her of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jacobite Rebellions (1689-1746) (Bell's Scottish History Source Books.)] Reference

Let me first, Bold one, said she, apprize them of your visit — for your own sake let me — for my brother is with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

And yet, as soon as I knew they had so given out, I thought it proper to apprize you of it, and take your commands upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

When any great accounts were to be submitted to the Emperor, Duroc would apprize him in secret of some of the minutest details.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

It was finished to send you yesterday, I know; and I apprize you of it, that you should fortify your heart against the contents of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

But I will apprize thee of it beforehand, as I told thee, that thou mayest keep thy parole with the lady in the best manner thou canst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Erastus before him through Macedon, to apprize the faithful in those parts of his intention, and to prepare the alms intended to be sent the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

But he kept it there because it was his sincere conviction that it belonged there, ready to apprize him of the vibrations of the popular will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference

Admiral Foley, in order to apprize him that the telegraph might work; the Dover express-boy proves that he carried the letter given to him, to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814] Reference

He wished he had not come to England at all, or had come sooner; and hoped I would apprize him of the whole mournful story, at a proper season.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

All that is requisite, continued Yorick, is to apprize Didius, and let him manage a conversation after dinner so as to introduce the subject. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman] Reference

He grinned presently as a chorus of hallooing flung wide upon the night to apprize those farthest away that something had gone wrong and to recall them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man for Himself] Reference

As this letter will apprize you of an alteration in the place to which you must direct your next, I send it by a friend of Mr. Hickman, who may be depended upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference

Poetry is seldom, if ever, published except at the cost of the poet; and the foreman of one of the leading London houses is deputed to apprize aspiring rhymesters, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference

As she looked from her room, she saw the Marquis on horseback, with several attendants, advancing at a distance, and she hastened to apprize Madame La Motte of his approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of the Forest] Reference

OMAR, who was impatient to apprize him that he was not alone, and to prevent his disclosing sentiments which he wished to conceal, now threw himself upon the ground at his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Almoran and Hamet] Reference

The next day she managed to apprize the clerk in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference

"Villain! why didst thou not apprize me of this yesterday?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference

I came just now to apprize you of a resolution that I had formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker] Reference

Vrillière, who came to apprize me, that my protégée from the isle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself] Reference

Muscovy, and that they had sent to apprize him of so extraordinary an arrival.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth] Reference

Mandoux were in the château; and, if so, to apprize him he wished to speak with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry, with minute details of her entire career as favorite of Louis XV. Written by herself] Reference

He avoided, however, seeing and speaking to Seneca; but sent in a centurion to apprize him of his final doom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome] Reference

She hurried out to apprize Mrs. Leonard Warren, as president of the Thanatopsis, of the miracle which had been worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

The Baron, who knows our manners, and lives near our country, will apprize you of the time and means to be their protector.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since] Reference

"But," observed the ambassador, "if I am to be one of the party, I think it would be right to apprize the young lady of it.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

If he were, contrary to the tenor of his conversation, cunning and malignant, to apprize you of this, would be to place you in security.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale] Reference

When an unpracticed dancer makes a mistake, we may apprize him of his error; but it would be very impolite to have the air of giving him.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Behave: A Pocket Manual Of Republican Etiquette, And Guide To Correct Personal Habits Embracing An Exposition Of The Principles Of Good Manners; Useful Hints On The Care Of The Person, Eating, Drinking, Exercise, Habits, Dress, Self-Culture, And Behavior At Home; The Etiquette Of Salutations, Introductions, Receptions, Visits, Dinners, Evening Parties, Conversation, Letters, Presents, Weddings, Funerals, The Street, The Church, Places Of Amusement, Traveling, Etc., With Illustrative Anecdotes, a Chapter on Love and Courtship, and Rules of Order for Debating Societies] Reference