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"


2. Verb. Inform (somebody) of something. "I advised him that the rent was due"
Exact synonyms: Apprise, Apprize, Give Notice, Notify, Send Word
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"

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

advice and consent
advice animal
advice boat
advices
adview
adviewed
adviewing
adviews
advisabilities
advisability
advisable
advisableness
advisablenesses
advisably
advisatory
advise (current term)
adviseable
advised
advisedly
advisedness
advisee
advisees
adviser
advisers
advisership
adviserships
advises
advising

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 ..."

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