advise
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English avisen (“to perceive, consider, inform”), from Old French aviser, from avis, or from Late Latin advisō, from ad + visō, from Latin videō (“to see”), visum (“past participle of videō”). See also advice.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)
- (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.
- The dentist advised me to brush three times a day.
- The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning.
- 1992, Burns, D. & Pierce, J.P., Tobacco Use in California 1990-1991, Sacramento: California Department of Health Services, →ISBN, page 88:
- Of those current smokers who had seen a physician within the last year, 35.7% of the males and 27.6% of the females reported never having been advised to stop smoking by their physician.
- (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.
- The dentist advised brushing three times a day.
- (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
- We were advised of the risk.
- (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, “8, The Election”, in Past and Present, book 2:
- (obsolete, transitive) To look at, watch; to see.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- when that villain he auiz'd, which late / Affrighted had the fairest Florimell, / Full of fiers fury, and indignant hate, / To him he turned […]
- (obsolete, intransitive) To consult (with).
- 1746, Charles Pinot Duclos, The history of Lewis xi. king of France. Transl, page 169:
- The armies drawing constantly nearer to each other, the king advised with his council, whether he should march against the Britons, or sall upon the count of Gharolois.
- (Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.
Usage notes
[edit]- This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of advise
| infinitive | (to) advise | ||
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| present tense | past tense | ||
| 1st-person singular | advise | advised | |
| 2nd-person singular | advise, advisest† | advised, advisedst† | |
| 3rd-person singular | advises, adviseth† | advised | |
| plural | advise | ||
| subjunctive | advise | advised | |
| imperative | advise | — | |
| participles | advising | advised | |
Synonyms
[edit]- (to offer an opinion): counsel, warn; See also Thesaurus:advise
- (to give information or notice): inform, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform
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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Noun
[edit]advise
- Misspelling of advice.
References
[edit]- “advise, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
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