ADVERTISEMENT

ADVER'TISEMENT, noun Information; admonition, notice given. More generally, a publication intended to give notice; this may be, by a short account printed in a newspaper, or by a written account posted, or otherwise made public.

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advertisement. Advertisement, n. information, a public notice

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Ad‐ver″tise‐ment (ăd‐vẽr″tĭz‐ment or ăd′vẽr‐tīz″ment; 277), n. [[F. avertisement, formerly also spelled advertissement, a warning, giving notice, fr. avertir.]] 1. 1. The act of informing or notifying; notification.
An advertisement of danger. Bp. Burnet. 2. 2. Admonition; advice; warning.
Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak. 3. 3. A public notice, especially a paid notice in some public print; anything that advertises; as, a newspaper containing many advertisements.