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The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

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

With advice; wisely.

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

With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.

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.

An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

A keeper of archives or records. [R.]

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] Shak. To avise one's self, to consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer. Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.