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Word Meanings - DISADVISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To advise against; to dissuade from. Boyle.

Related words: (words related to DISADVISE)

  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • ADVISER
    One who advises.
  • BOYLE'S LAW
    See LAW
  • ADVISEDLY
    1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. Shak. 2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.
  • AGAINST
    1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
  • ADVISEDNESS
    Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.
  • ADVISERSHIP
    The office of an adviser.
  • DISSUADER
    One who dissuades; a dehorter.
  • DISSUADE
    1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton. 2. To divert
  • ADVISEMENT
    1. Counsel; advise; information. And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel. 2. Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.
  • ADVISE
    advisare. advisare; ad + visare, fr. L. videre, visum, to see. See 1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton. 2. To give information or notice to;
  • MISADVISE
    To give bad counsel to.
  • MISADVISED
    Ill advised. -- Mis`ad*vis"ed*ly, adv.
  • DISADVISE
    To advise against; to dissuade from. Boyle.
  • UNADVISED
    1. Not prudent; not discreet; ill advised. Shak. 2. Done without due consideration; wanton; rash; inconsiderate; as, an unadvised proceeding. -- Un`ad*vis"ed*ly, adv. -- Un`ad*vis"ed*ness, n.
  • FOREADVISE
    To advise or counsel before the time of action, or before the event. Shak.

 

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