Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Announce

Announce ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old French anoncier, French annoncer, from Latin annuntiare; ad + nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See Nuncio, and compare Annunciate.]

1.
To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim.
Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. — Gilpin
2.
To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
Publish laws, announce Or life or death. — Prior