ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Informed, notified, admonished, warned.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 54 b. The king Laomedon thus aduertised of the descente of the knightes of Greece … ymagined anon that they were espyes.
c. 1560. Calvin’s Com. Prayer Bk., in Phenix, 1708, II. 213. If so be that … being brotherly advertis’d, he acknowledg not his Fault.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., Wks. 1860, 340. The king was neither so shallow, nor so ill advertised, as not to perceive the intention of the French.
1802. Playfair, Huttonian Theory, 317. Seymour and myself were advertised of our approach to a junction of granite and schistus.
2. Publicly announced (as being done, being for sale, etc.).
1784. Cowper, Task, III. 668. Estates are landscapes, gaz’d upon a while, Then advertis’d, and auctioneer’d away.
1882. J. M. Wilson, in Daily News, 12 Sept., 6/6. If the Tabard were a well-managed and well-advertised hotel.
