Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Advertise

Advertise (?; 277) , transitive verb

[French avertir, formerly also spelt advertir, to warn, give notice to, Latin advertere to turn to. The ending was probably influenced by the noun advertisement. See Advert.]

To give notice to; to inform or apprise; to notify; to make known; hence, to warn; -- often followed by of before the subject of information; as, to advertise a man of his loss. [Archaic]
I will advertise thee what this people shall do. — Num. xxiv. 14
4.
To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting.