Word Meanings - INFORMER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution

Additional info about word: INFORMER

One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution therefor. Bouvier. Wharton. (more info) 1. One who informs, animates, or inspires. Thomson. Nature, informer of the poet's art. Pope. 2. One who informs, or imparts knowledge or news.

Related words: (words related to INFORMER)

• PENAL
  Of or pertaining to punishment, to penalties, or to crimes and offenses; pertaining to criminal jurisprudence: as: Enacting or threatening punishment; as, a penal statue; the penal code. Incurring punishment; subject to a penalty; as, a penalact
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• COMMONER
  1. One of the common people; one having no rank of nobility. All below them even their children, were commoners, and in the eye law equal to each other. Hallam. 2. A member of the House of Commons. 3. One who has a joint right in common ground.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• COMMONISH
  Somewhat common; commonplace; vulgar.
• COMMONLY
  1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
• COMMONWEALTH
  Specifically, the form of government established on the death of Charles I., in 1649, which existed under Oliver Cromwell and his son Richard, ending with the abdication of the latter in 1659. Syn. -- State; realm; republic. (more info) 1. A state;
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• COMMONITION
  Advice; warning; instruction. Bailey.
• STATUTE
  of statuere to set, station, ordain, fr. status position, station, fr. stare, statum, to stand. See Stand, and cf. Constitute, 1. An act of the legislature of a state or country, declaring, commanding, or prohibiting something; a positive law;
• COMMONAGE
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others. The claim of comonage . . . in most of the forests. Burke.
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• COMMONS
  1. The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled chasses or nobility; the commonalty; the common people. 'T is like the commons, rude unpolished hinds, Could send such message to their sovereign. Shak. The word commons in its present
• COMMONPLACE
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• COMMON SENSE
  See SENSE
• COMMONNESS
  1. State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight. 2. Triteness; meanness.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• COMMON
  comon, OF. comun, F. commun, fr. L. communis; com- + munis ready to be of service; cf. Skr. mi to make fast, set up, build, Coth. gamains common, G. gemein, and E. mean low, common. Cf. Immunity, Commune, n. 1. Belonging or relating equally, or
• UNCOMMON
  Not common; unusual; infrequent; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage. Syn. -- Rare; scarce; infrequent; unwonted. -- Un*com"mon*ly, adv. -- Un*com"mon*ness, n.
• FELLOW-COMMONER
  A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
• INTERCOMMON
  To graze cattle promiscuously in the commons of each other, as the inhabitants of adjoining townships, manors, etc. (more info) 1. To share with others; to participate; especially, to eat at the same table. Bacon.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• INTERCOMMONAGE
  The right or privilege of intercommoning.
• DISCOMMON
  To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill. (more info) 1. To deprive of the right of common. Bp. Hall. 2. To deprive of privileges. T. Warton.