2. Verb. (third-person singular of advert) ¹
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Definition of Adverts
1. advert [v] - See also: advert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adverts
Literary usage of Adverts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"spirit, adverts to a notice in The Chronicle of the honour which his Majesty,
the late excellent and much lamented King of Portugal, had been pleased to ..."
2. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the Admiralty by Samuel Pepys, Richard Griffin Braybrooke (1848)
"To the dissolution of these meetings, occasioned by the increasing infirmities
of their Founder, Evelyn adverts in his letters, in terms of the strongest ..."
3. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"Sir Walter, in his reply, adverts to the death of Louis XVIII., which occurred
on the 17th of September 1824—and prophesies the fate of his successor. ..."
4. Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1847)
"... adverts to the Oregon Question—Statement of the Earl of Aberdeen—On the same
evening Sir Robert Peel declares his Resignation of Office in the House of ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1805)
"... intitled '< African Memoranda," •which we have just seen, adverts to the
tendency of M. Gol- ..."
6. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"In one of his prologues, he thus adverts to the various sources of his multifarious
labours : To give content to this most curious age, The gods themselves ..."
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