advise

English

Alternative forms

• advize (obsolete)
• avise
• avize

Etymology

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

• IPA^(key): /ədˈvaɪz/
• Hyphenation: ad‧vise

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

   The dentist advised brushing three times a day.

3. (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.

   We were advised of the risk.

4. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, “8, The Election”, in Past and Present, book 2:

     […] Samson is reported to the King accordingly. His Majesty, advising of it for a moment, orders that Samson be brought in with the other Twelve.

5. (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 […]

6. (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.

7. (Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to offer an opinion): counsel, warn; See also Thesaurus:advise
• (to give information or notice): inform, notify; See also Thesaurus:inform

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

advise

1. Misspelling of advice.

References

• “advise, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Anagrams

• Davies, avised, davies, visaed