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An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin.

Bad advice.

Advice; exhortation. [Obs.] Peacham.

tle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

Admonition; advice; warning. [Obs.] Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Shak.

Ready to receive advice. [R.] South.

With advice; wisely.

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

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.

Subsequent to and notwithstanding; as, after all our advice, you took that course.

Wrong; faulty; out of order; improper; as, it may not be amiss to ask advice.

e or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity.

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

Information; advice.

descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat, advice boat, etc. The term is sometimes applied to steam vessels, even of the largest class; as, the Cunard boats.

opes or opinions upon something deemed reliable; to rely; as, to build on the opinions or advice of others.

Precept or warning against evil of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction. In way of caution I must tell you. Shak. Caution money, money deposited by way of security or guaranty, as by a student at an English university.

Advice; warning; instruction. [Obs.] Bailey.

onscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. The advice of wise and conscientious men. Prescott.