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/nˈoʊtəfˌaɪ/ Listen

verb

Notify v. t. (past & past part. notified; pres. part. notifying)

To make known; to declare; to publish; as, to notify a fact to a person. "No law can bind till it be notified or promulged."

To give notice to; to inform by notice; to apprise; as, the constable has notified the citizens to meet at the city hall; the bell notifies us of the time of meeting. "The President of the United States has notified the House of Representatives that he has approved and signed the act." Note: This application of notify has been condemned; but it is in constant good use in the United States, and in perfect accordance with the use of certify.

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"Notify" Quotes from Famous Books

... officer hastened to notify General Dubois that the British were about to retire, and General Dubois betook himself in all speed to Vlamertinghe, the Belgian headquarters, to notify their commanding general. Foch happened to be with the Belgian general. And while these three were ...

— Foch the Man - A Life of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Armies • Clara E. Laughlin

... Constantinople with certain proposals; but these were not deemed satisfactory; and the Sultan, acting upon intemperate advice, pronounced the formal deposition of the Sultan of Egypt from his pashalic, and sent a firman to Alexandria to notify that event. Mehemet Ali intimated his intention of repelling force by force; and it was then resolved by the four powers that the ports of Syria and Egypt should be declared to be in a state of blockade. Captain ...

— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. - From George III. to Victoria • E. Farr and E. H. Nolan

... name of the Bainbridge Trust Company, I must notify you," he began, "that by representing yourself as another person, entering into ...

— Lady Larkspur • Meredith Nicholson

... the guard to notify the first sergeants of F and H companies to turn out the second platoons of each company. You now have your orders ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys as Lieutenants - or, Serving Old Glory as Line Officers • H. Irving Hancock

... Ahmed Bey. The Arabs are always more steady, if they have an English officer with them. They will be ready to start in an hour. A signaller from the 11th Soudanese shall go with you; and you can notify, to us, the approach of any strong party of the enemy, and their direction; so that the gunboat can send a shell or two among them, as a hint that they had better ...

— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty

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