Informo, informas, informare. Virg.Cic.To shape or forme: to informe: to in stcuct or teach: to begin to warke or fashion a thing: to draw out the fashion of a thing: To fashion.informare areas. Col. To draw out or fashion plattes in a gardeine.Informabitur in eam crassitudinem, Col.It shallbe fashioned to that thicknes.Informare deos coniectura. Ci. To imagine and conceiue in the mind by coniecture what god is. Ætatem puerilem artibus ad humanitatem informare.Cic.To inftrutt children in learning and nurture.Oraroreminformare. Quin. To fafhion an oratour.Animus bene è natura informatus.Cic.A mind welframed of nature.Cogitacio informata. Ci. An vnperfect cogltation onely begonne and not perfecre.Proscriptio informata.Cic.A proscription begonne but not put in erecution.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
in-formo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to give form to a thing, to shape, form, mould, fashion.I.Lit. (mostly poet.): clipeum, Verg. A. 8, 447: aream, Col. 11, 3, 13: effigiem, Sil. 17, 525: Martem cerā, Poët. ap. Plin. Ep. 9, 7: taedas, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 331.—II.Trop. (class.). A.To form an idea of a thing, to represent, sketch, delineate: di ita ignoti, ut eos ne conjectura quidem informare possimus, Cic. N. D. 1, 15: inanium visorum una depulsio est, sive illa cogitatione informantur, sive in quiete, id. Ac. 2, 16, 51: virtutem, id. Fin. 4, 16, 45: atque ego in summo oratore fingendo talem informabo,
will describe
, id. Or. 2, 7: ad eum (oratorem) incohandum et informandum, id. ib. 9, 33: informat adhuc adumbratum indicium filii, id. Sull. 18, 52.— B.To inform,instruct,educate (syn.: instruere, instituere): artes quibus aetas puerilis ad humanitatem informari solet, Cic. Arch. 3, 4: animus a natura bene informatus,