discounsel

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French desconseillier.

Verb

discounsel (third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle discounselling or discounseling, simple past and past participle discounselled or discounseled)

1. (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 […]

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• cloudiness, senoculids, undisclose