advert
verb (used without object)
to remark or comment; refer (usually followed byto ).
had adverted
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past perfectof advert.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Interpretative attention is that which never existed at all, but which would have existed if the agent had adverted.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
Seeing that Traddles now glanced anxiously at my aunt again, I reminded him of the second and last point to which he had adverted.
From David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
He had in his former lectures spoken of Time and Eternity—he had called Time a distraction of Eternity—he had adverted to those ecstacies of great Saints, which he called transitions to Eternity.
From The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 by Friedrich Schlegel
He would now speak of this abolition principle to which he had adverted as a rule of conduct for slave-holding communities.
From Discussion on American Slavery by Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge
Evidently, the petty things to which Mr. Hughes had adverted in his campaign speeches by way of criticizing the President and his administration had cut the President to the quick.
From Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him by Joseph P. Tumulty
