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Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out. Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.

eries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the habit of doing." Bancroft.

A company of secret and irresponsible advisers, as of a king; a cabal or clique.

One who cautions or advises.

fair; -- often fallowed by up, off, or away. So foul a sky clears without a strom. Shak. Advise him to stay till the weather clears up. Swift.

One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

To contradict or oppose; to thwart. [Obs.] I was advised not to contrary the king. Bp. Latimer.

gulate matters of doctrine or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.] -- Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate. -- Privy council. See under Privy. [Eng.]

Result of consultation; advice; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson.

Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. [Obs.] He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.

One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak.

A dissuader; an adviser to the contrary. [Obs.]

Formed with deliberation; well-advised; carefully considered; not sudden or rash; as, a deliberate opinion; a deliberate measure or result. Settled visage and deliberate word. Shak.

ancroft. The court of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from the deliberative body, the advisers of the crown. Hallam.

To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). [Obsolescent] Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton.

o a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution. Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak. Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.

llible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

Giving exhortation or advise; encouraging; exhortatory; inciting; as, a hortatory speech. Holland.

To communicate knowledge to; to make known to; to acquaint; to advise; to instruct; to tell; to notify; to enlighten; -- usually followed by of. For he would learn their business secretly, And then inform his master hastily. Spenser. I am informed thoroughky of the cause. Shak.