n. Communication of form or element; infusion, as of an animating or actuating principle.n. Knowledge communicated or received; particular intelligence or report; news; notice: as, to get information of a shipwreck.n. Knowledge inculcated or derived; known facts or principles, however communicated or acquired, as from reading, instruction, or observation: as, a man of various information; the information gathered from extended travel.n. In law:n. An official criminal charge presented, usually by the prosecuting officers of the state, without the interposition of a grand jury. Wharton.n. A criminal charge made under oath, before a justice of the peace, of an offense punishable summarily.n. A complaint, in a qui tam action in a court of common-law jurisdiction, to recover a penalty prescribed by statute or ordinance.n. In English law, a complaint in the name of the crown, in a civil action, to obtain satisfaction of some obligation to, or for some injury to the property or property rights of, the crown.n. In Scots law, a written argument in court.n. In metaphysics, the imparting of form to matter.