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Definition of Advise
1. Verb. Give advice to. "They advise him to write the letter"; "The lawyer counselled me when I was accused of tax fraud"
Specialized synonyms: Exhort, Press, Urge, Urge On, Deter, Dissuade, Admonish, Discourage, Monish, Warn, Tip, Tip Off, Misadvise, Misguide, Propound, Consult, Contraindicate
Generic synonyms: Discuss, Hash Out, Talk Over
Derivative terms: Advisable, Advisee, Advisement, Adviser, Advisor, Advisory, Advisory, Counsel, Counsel, Counseling, Counselling, Counsellor, Counselor
2. Verb. Inform (somebody) of something. "I advised him that the rent was due"
Generic synonyms: Inform
Derivative terms: Apprisal, Notice, Notice, Notifiable, Notification, Notification
3. Verb. Make a proposal, declare a plan for something. "They advise to move "; "The senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"
Specialized synonyms: Advocate, Recommend, Urge, Advance, Throw Out, Proposition, Feed Back, Posit, Put Forward, State, Submit, Make A Motion, Move
Generic synonyms: Declare
Derivative terms: Proposal, Proposer, Proposition, Suggester, Suggestible, Suggestion, Suggestion
Definition of Advise
1. v. t. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
2. v. t. To consider; to deliberate.
Definition of Advise
1. Verb. (obsolete transitive) To look at, watch; to see. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Advise
1. to give advice to [v -VISED, -VISING, -VISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advise
Literary usage of Advise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"You may advise and give good precepts, as who cannot ? But how shall they be put
in practice ? I may not deny but our passions are violent, and tyrannise of ..."
2. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"advise", &e. No single word will 4 The walls of Athens made of express the exact
sense in English.] chapels and tombs. Corn. Nepos, in ; ["For they had not, ..."
3. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 by Edward Bellamy (1917)
"'I should strongly advise you to sleep if you can tonight, Air. West, in preference
to listening to the finest tunes in the world,' the doctor said, ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1899)
"One of the stipulations, however, was that the king should advise on the subject
of the war ' with his grave council ; ' in other words, that military and ..."