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 Faërie Queene."
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.