notify
[noh-tuh-fahy]
- to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- Chiefly British. to make known; give information of: The sale was notified in the newspapers.
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Origin of notify
Synonyms
See more synonyms for notify on Thesaurus.com1. apprise, advise, tell.
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Contemporary Examples
The customer-service representative said they had notified the billing service used by my doctors that I was not “in network.”
J.W. had no way of knowing that he had not notified any of those other jurisdictions that she was in custody.
“Ben,” who was hardly ever called “Mr. Bradlee,” always had to be notified when a cake was imminent.
That Snapchat deceptively told its users that the sender would be notified if a recipient took a screenshot of a snap.
‘The Snappening’ Is Real: 90,000 Private Photos and 9,000 Hacked Snapchat Videos Leak OnlineMarlow Stern
October 13, 2014
After 28 days in sanctuary, Neyoy was notified that ICE had granted him a work permit and a renewable one-year stay of removal.
This Church Is Reviving the Sanctuary Movement to Shelter Undocumented Immigrants From DeportationCaitlin Dickson
June 11, 2014
Historical Examples
They had waited until day, and the Abbe, having been notified, was about to come.
The DreamEmile Zola
It was notified to her that she was forbidden to reappear at Court.
The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, CompleteMadame La Marquise De Montespan
He should come home at once, he said, and he notified the captain that such was his intention.
Cap'n Warren's WardsJoseph C. Lincoln
She decided to become housekeeper at the Trumet parsonage and so notified him.
Keziah CoffinJoseph C. Lincoln
But that the captains should be notified of any emergency was essential.
The Siege of BostonAllen French
notify
- to inform; tell
- mainly British to draw attention to; make known; announce
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French notifier, from Latin notificāre to make known, from nōtus known + facere to make
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Word Origin and History for notified
notify
v.
late 14c., from Old French notefiier "make known, inform, apprise" (13c.), from Latin notificare "to make known, notify," from Latin notus "known" (see notice (n.)) + root of facere "make, do" (see factitious). Related: Notified; notifying.
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