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68 words match “ADVISE”

ADVISE v. 4 definitions

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

ADVISEDLY adv. 2 definitions

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

Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.

ADVISEMENT n. 2 definitions

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.]

To advise against; to dissuade from. [R.] Boyle.

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

To give bad counsel to.

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

UNADVISED a. 2 definitions

Not prudent; not discreet; ill advised. Shak.

To exhort; to advise. [Obs.] Feltham.

To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause. Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

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.

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.

AREAD; AREED v.

To counsel, advise, warn, or direct. But mark what I aread thee now. Avaunt! Milton.

One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL n.

e, empowered to act in all litigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advise this supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.

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.

Advisedly. [Obs.] Chaucer.