Word Meanings - DISCOUNSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To dissuade. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to DISCOUNSEL)
- 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 - SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faƫrie Queene." - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.