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Word Meanings - MISCOUNSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To counsel or advise wrongly.

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  • ADVISER
    One who advises.
  • 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
  • COUNSELOR
    conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
  • ADVISEDLY
    1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. Shak. 2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.
  • COUNSELORSHIP
    The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
  • COUNSELABLE
    1. Willing to receive counsel or follow advice. Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon. 2. Suitable to be advised; advisable, wise. He did not believe it counselable. Clarendon.
  • ADVISEDNESS
    Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.
  • ADVISERSHIP
    The office of an adviser.
  • 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;
  • WRONGLY
    In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
  • MISADVISE
    To give bad counsel to.
  • DISCOUNSEL
    To dissuade. Spenser.
  • MISCOUNSEL
    To counsel or advise wrongly.
  • 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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