advisedly

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English advised

Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der.

Proto-Germanic *līkąder.

Proto-Germanic *-līkaz

Proto-Germanic *-ê

Proto-Germanic *-līkê

Proto-West Germanic *-līkē

Old English -līċe

Middle English -ly

English -ly

English advisedly

From advised + -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ədˈvaɪ.zɪd.li/

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Adverb

advisedly (comparative more advisedly, superlative most advisedly)

1. With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.
   • a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”:

     […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others

   • a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XVII. The Folly of Slander.”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D. […], volume I (Containing Twenty-four Sermons on Several Occasions), Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, published 1830, →OCLC, paragraph 6, pages 502–503:

     The tongue is a sharp and parlous weapon, which we are bound to keep up in the sheath, or never to draw forth but advisedly, and upon just occasion; it must ever be wielded with caution and care: to brandish it wantonly, to lay about with it blindly and furiously, to slash and smite therewith any that happeth to come in our way, doth argue malice or madness.

   • 1951 July, Melville Clark, Jr., “Numerical Results and Conclusions”, in Axial Heat Distribution in Brookhaven Reactor (BNL-123), Upton, N.Y.: Brookhaven National Laboratory, →OCLC, page 17:

     Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge.

2. As prescribed by an authority, especially a dictionary
   • 2021, David Lorimer, A Quest for Wisdom:

     By contrast, unelemental philosophy no longer has as its focal point humanity's relation to the world. Man (I use this term advisedly) becomes an analysing spectator of his existence, as opposed to a participant in it.

   • 1993, The Mountain Goats, “Beach House”:

     Now when I say the seal is vicious I use the term advisedly, according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b

Antonyms

• ill-advisedly
• inadvisedly

Related terms

• advisedness
• advisability
• advisably (plesionymic)
• inadvisably

Translations

With intentionality; deliberately

• Bulgarian: обмислено (bg) (obmisleno)
• Dutch: doelbewust (nl)
• French: intentionnellement (fr)
• Irish: d'aon toisc
• Italian: intenzionalmente (it), deliberatamente (it), a ragion veduta, con cognizione di causa (it)