discounsel
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French desconseillier.
Verb
[edit]discounsel (third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle discounselling or discounseling, simple past and past participle discounselled or discounseled)
- (obsolete, transitive) To advise (someone) against doing something. [15th–17th c.]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But him the Palmer from that vanity, / With temperate aduice discounselled […]
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 41, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Anthony de Leva, seeing the Emperor his master resolutely obstinate to undertake that voyage, and deeming it wonderfully glorious, maintained neverthelesse the contrarie, and discounselled him from it […].