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One who advises.

The office of an adviser. [R.]

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.

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

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

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.]

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.]

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

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

udicious; wanting in sound judgment; undiscerning; indiscreet; unwise; as, an injudicious adviser. An injudicious biographer who undertook to be his editor and the protector of his memory. A. Murphy.

r at a court-martial; he acts as the representative of the government, as the responsible adviser of the court, and also, to a certain extent, as counsel for the accused, when he has no other counsel. -- Judge-Advocate General, in the United States, the title of two officers, one attached to the War Department and hav…

ithout the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government,…

ine not recking danger. Sir P. Sidney. And may you better reck the rede Than ever did the adviser. Burns.

heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).