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Definition of Counselled
1. counsel [v] - See also: counsel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counselled
Literary usage of Counselled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"Bruce's chief advisers counselled him against coming to an engagement with forces
numerically superior to those under his command, lie, however, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Bartholomew counselled patience, and represented the assistance he could give to
t lie pope and the whole Church by remaining in Rome. ..."
3. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"be able to judge of the probable relative success of reading or acting here, and
who counselled the latter. . . . Good-bye, dear. Ever yours, FANNY. ..."
4. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... had counselled, he said he would rather die than injure so true a wife and
noble a gentleman. So she returned to her husband happy and untainted. ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... as we are counselled to do, by coming up stairs, and my guardian spirit has
somewhat softened my trial, by sending me a horrible cold in my head, ..."
6. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"CHAPTER XIII Of the holy communication of an Abbot to Sir Bors, and how the Abbot
counselled him. AN D that night was Sir Bors served richly; ..."
7. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"... through which the nation as a whole counselled could impress its will upon
its rulers.3 By reason of the exist- n^to^k ence of such conditions the elder ..."
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