Advise

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Advise - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

ADVI'SE, v.t. s as z. [See Advice.]

1. To give counsel to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; as, I advise you to be cautious of speculation.

2. To give information; to communicate notice; to make acquainted with; followed by of, before the thing communicated; as, the merchants were advised of the risk.

3. To deliberate, consider, or consult.

Advise thyself of what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 1 Chr 21.

But in this sense, it is usually intransitive.

ADVI'SE, v.i. To deliberate, weigh well, or consider.

Advise and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 2 Sam 24.

To advise with is to consult for the purpose of taking the opinions of others.

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Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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