In`for*ma"tion (?), n.
[F., fr. L. informatio representation, conception. See Inform, v. t.] 1. The act of
informing, or communicating knowledge or intelligence. The active informations of the intellect. South. 2. News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction.
Larger opportunities of information. Rogers.
He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift. 3. (Law) A proceeding in the nature of
a prosecution for some offense against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalf of the
government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being
based on the finding of a grand jury. See Indictment.
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 to the reigns of predynastic rulers in the Nile Valley. This, like
some of the Nippur texts, takes us back to that dim period before the
dawn of actual history, and, though the information it affords is not
detailed like theirs, it provides fresh confirmation of the general
accuracy of Manetho' s sources, and suggests some interesting points
for comparison.
But the people with whose traditions we are ultimately concerned are
spared if we can clear the matter up."
" Is Miss Dobney the only source of information ? Surely she had
other correspondents?"
" There is one correspondent who is a sure draw, Watson. That is
the bank. Single ladies must live, and their passbooks are
compressed diaries. She banks at Silvester' s. I have glanced
Resolved, That the President of the United States be, and he is
hereby requested to furnish the Senate information of the state
of that portion of the Union lately in rebellion; whether the
rebellion has been suppressed and the United States put again in
possession of the States in which it existed; whether the United
States courts are restored, post offices re-established and the
revenue collected; and also whether the people of those States
measure that special characteristic which belongs to all the workmen of
his school, a characteristic which, even in the absence of much positive
information about their actual history, seems to bring those workmen
themselves very near to us-- the impress of a personal quality, a
profound expressiveness, what the French call intimite, by which is
meant some subtler sense of originality-- the seal on a man' s work of
what is most inward and peculiar in his moods, and manner of
apprehension: it is what we call expression, carried to its highest
persons to corrupt motives. But the habit of affairs, if, on one
hand, it tends to corrupt the mind, furnishes it, on the other, with
the, means of better information . The authority of such persons
will always have some weight. It may stand upon a par with the
speculations of those who are less practised in business; and who,
with perhaps purer intentions, have not so effectual means of
judging. It is besides an effect of vulgar and puerile malignity to
imagine that every Statesman is of course corrupt: and that his
In a spare frame scarce fit for drill inspection;
But when he ope' d his lips a stream so vast
Of information flooded each professor,
They quite forgot his eyeglass,-- something past
All precedent,--accepting the transgressor,
Weak eyes and all of which he was possessor.
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