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|lshtext=<b>in-formo</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,<br /><b>I</b> to [[give]] form to a [[thing]], to [[shape]], form, [[mould]], [[fashion]].<br /><b>I</b> 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.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop. ([[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> 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.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</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, formed, id. Off. 1, 4, 13.
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