Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AD-VER-TISE', v.t. [s as z. Fr. avertir; Arm. avertisza, to inform; from ad and verto, to turn. See Advert.]

1. To inform; to give notice, advice or intelligence to, whether of a past or present event, or of something future. I will advertise thee what this people will do to thy people in the latter day. – Num. xxiv. I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants and elders of my people. – Ruth iv. In this sense, it has of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his losses.
2. To publish a notice of; to publish a written or printed account of; as, to advertise goods or a farm.