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The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

With advice; wisely.

opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [Obs.] Shak.

Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

Counsel; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

One who advises.

The office of an adviser. [R.]

Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection.

A gigantic bird found fossil in Madagascar.

One versed in aërology.

One who flies in an aëroplane.

The positive or negative stimulus exerted by oxygen on aërobic and anaërobic bacteria. -- A`ër*o*tac"tic (#), a.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

One who exhibits affectation. [R.] Fitzed. Hall.