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Webster 1913 Edition

(ĭn-fôrm′ẽr)

Noun.

[From

Verb.

]

One who informs, animates, or inspires.

[Obs.]

Thomson.

Nature,

informer

of the poet’s art.

Pope.

One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.

(Law)

One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute.

Common informer

(Law)

one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution therefor.

Bouvier.

Wharton.

Noun.

One who animates, informs or gives intelligence.

One who communicates, or whose duty it is to communicate to a magistrate a knowledge of the violations of law, and bring the offenders to trial.