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.