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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

informans

-antis

, p. pr. of

informare

. See

Verb.

]

One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies.

[Obs.]

Glanvill.

One who imparts information or instruction.

One who offers an accusation; an informer. See

[Obs. or R.]

It was the last evidence of the kind; the

informant

was hanged.

Burke.

Noun.

One who informs, or gives intelligence.

One who offers an accusation. [See Informer, which is generally used.]