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To apprise someone is to tell them news they need — a change, a risk, how things stand. It is a formal verb. You will meet it in offices, reports, and careful emails far more than in chat with friends. The usual pattern is apprise someone of something. People also say keep someone apprised, meaning keep them up to date as things change. Though actually, a lot of native speakers never use this word at all; they just say tell, inform, or let someone know. When you do see apprise, it often sounds a little stiff — and in official writing, that stiffness is the point.
告知、知會（偏正式）
組成Borrowed from French appris / apprise, the past-participle of apprendre "to learn; to teach", from Latin apprehendere "to seize; to grasp with the mind", from ad- "to, towards" + prehendō "to grab, lay hold of".
同家族的字
- apprenticesame French apprendre (to learn / to teach)
- apprehendsame Latin apprehendere (to seize / to grasp)
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
appriseverb詞源 1/əˈpɹaɪz/
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To make (someone or oneself) aware of some information; to inform, to notify.
- The ears apprise the brain of sound.
- [I]n general, he reſolve to Govern vvell: And […] Throughly and rightly to appriſe himſelf of that Principle that is the Soul of the Government; […]
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rareTo formally impart (information) to someone; to advise, to notify.
- P.S. Morlands have not yet written to my bankers apprizing the payment of your balances; pray desire them to do so.
appriseverb詞源 2/əˈpɹaɪz/
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archaicSynonym of appraise (“to determine the value or worth of (something)”).
- Theſe [people] muſt remember, hovv highly God apprizeth good purpoſes, and deſires, accepting, and revvarding them, vvhen they come to him, as if they came accompanied vvith the deeds themſelues.
- [W]hosoever, at the proper worth, / Apprises worldly honour and repute, / Esteems it nobler to die honoured man / Beneath Mannaia, than live centuries / Disgraced in the eye o' the world.
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archaicTo put a price on (something) for the purpose of sale; to appraise.
- Infeftments are alſo extinct, vvhen the Superior adjudgeth or appriſeth from his Vaſſal; for thereby it vvas found, that the Property vvas Conſolidat vvith the Superiority,
- [T]he infeftment of annualrent, being jus sed ignobilius, becomes extinct, if the annualrenter thereupon do apprise the property, and be infeft: and therefore, whoever appriseth for any years of the annualrent, the infeftment thereof, unless it be taken away by satisfaction or redemption, extinguisheth the infeftment of annualrent, without distinction whether the apprising be led for any years belonging to the fiar, liferenter, or any other.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。