Word Meanings - COUNSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination

Additional info about word: COUNSEL

fr. the root of consulere to consult, of uncertain origin. Cf. 1. Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1. 2. Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used. Hooker. 3. Result of consultation; advice; instruction. I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised. Shak. It was ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson. 4. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. The counsel of the Lord standeth forever. Ps. xxxiii. 11. The counsels of the wicked are deceit. Prov. xii. 5. 5. A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. Thilke lord . . . to whom no counsel may be hid. Gower. 6. One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay. Note: The some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management iof the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney. Kent. In counsel, in secret. Chaucer. -- To keep counsel, or To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed. The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all. Shak. Syn. -- Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme; opinion.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNSEL)

• Admonish
• Remind
• forewarn
• advise
• warn
• dissuade
• caution
• counsel
• reprove
• censure
• rebuke
• Admonition
• Warning
• advice
• reproof
• Exhort
• Urge
• enjoin
• incite
• animate
• Information
• Instruction
• notice
• notification
• knowledge
• Teaching
• education
• information
• direction
• order
• command

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COUNSEL)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent

Related words: (words related to COUNSEL)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• REMIND
  To put in mind of something; to bring to the remembrance of; to bring to the notice or consideration of . When age itself, which will not be defied, shall begin to arrest, seize, and remind us of our mortality. South.
• TEACHABLENESS
  Willingness to be taught.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• REMINDER
  One who, or that which, reminds; that which serves to awaken remembrance.
• ADVICE
  Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. To accept advice. To consult with another or others. Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion;
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• SUGGESTION
  Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party. (more info) 1. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea. 2. That which is suggested;
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• EXHORTER
  One who exhorts or incites.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• EDUCATIONIST
  One who is versed in the theories of, or who advocates and promotes, education.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• SELF-REPROOF
  The act of reproving one's self; censure of one's conduct by one's own judgment.
• SCHOOL-TEACHER
  One who teaches or instructs a school. -- School"-teach`ing, n.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries