Word Meanings - MISCOUNSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To counsel or advise wrongly.

Related words: (words related to MISCOUNSEL)

• 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.