advert
verb (used without object)
to remark or comment; refer (usually followed byto ).
have adverted
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present perfectof advert.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Thus even of the Giulietta, to whom I have adverted above, I have heard only casual mention by himself, and to this tender topic he would not suffer even his oldest friends to make allusion.
From Life of Beethoven by Anton Schindler
I have adverted to this, not that it might interest the reader, but as explaining a result connected with myself.
From The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid
It is your fault, Louisa, that I have adverted to this painful, this forbidden subject.
From The Sylph, Volume I and II by Georgiana Cavendish
The present point is one to which I have adverted in an earlier place.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
We have adverted to Easter Sepulchres of stone remaining at the present time, but they were by no means the only description erected.
From Old Church Lore by William Andrews
