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To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.

arrange, or make, on a sudden, or without previous preparation. Charles attempted to improvise a peace. Motley.

One who improvises.

See Legislature.

To give bad counsel to.

Ill advised. -- Mis`ad*vis"ed*ly, adv.

A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers. Chaucer.

A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.

Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.

A proof for final revision.

To foresee. [R.]

ction of errors; to reëxamine; to review; to look over with care for correction; as, to revise a writing; to revise a translation.

One who revises.

Devised by one's self.

To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book.

To look over; to supervise. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Not prudent; not discreet; ill advised. Shak.

To perform vivisection upon; to dissect alive. [Colloq.] Pop. Sci. Monthly.

The dissection of an animal while alive, for the purpose of making physiological investigations.