Advertise

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To give public notice of; to announce publicly, ·esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.

II. Advertise ·vt To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to Notify; to make known; hence, to warn;

— often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss.