advise
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English [edit]
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Etymology [edit]
Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from Late Latin advisō, from ad + visō, from Latin videō (“to see”), visum. See also advice.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)
- (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- when that villain he auiz'd, which late / Affrighted had the fairest Florimell, / Full of fiers fury, and indignant hate, / To him he turned [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:
- (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
- (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.
- We were advised of the risk.
- (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. VIII, The Election
Usage notes [edit]
- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
Synonyms [edit]
- See also Wikisaurus:advise
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
to give advice to; to offer an opinion; to counsel; to warn
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to give information or notice to; to inform
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