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t. & i. [O. Fr. ad viser; Ital. avvisare = to view, to perceive, to take note.] [ADVICE.] I. Transitive: (a) Ordinary Language: *1. To observe, to look at. "Heo heom avysed among ther play, For he was nought of that contray." Kyng A lisa under, 221 "He looked back, and her avizing well Weened, as he said, that by her outward grace, That fairest Florimel was present there in place." Spenser: F. Q., IV. ii. 22 *2. To consider, to deliberate upon. (a) Not with self added (unreflectively). (b) With self added (reflectively): To take counsel with one's self; to reflect. "Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me."-1 Chron . xxi. 12. 3. To inform, to acquaint, to apprise; to teach. [See Commerce .] "Quick. Are you adrised o' that? you shall find it a great charge: and to be up early and down late."Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, 1. 4. 4. To counsel; to offer counsel to, in the hope, or at least with the desire that it may De followed. "Brother, I advise you to the best."-Shakesp.: King Lear, i. 2. "I would advise all gentlemen to learn merchants' accounts."-Locke. (b) Technically: *1. 0. Scotch Law: 97 II. Intransitive: To consult, to deliberate, to reflect. "Now advise , and see what answer I shall return te him that sent me."-2 Sam . xxiv. 13. ad-vış'ed, pa. par. & a. [ADVISE.] As adjective : 1. Of a person: Counselled; acting with deliberation; prudent, wise. "Let him rather be advised in his answers than forward to tell stories."-Bacon: E ays. (a) Well advised : Humble, prudent. "Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom."-Prov. xiii. 10. (b) Ill advised : Foolish. 2. (a) Of a resolution: Well considered. (b) Of an act : Deliberate. after a great and long and advised disputation."-Froude: Hist . Eng . , ch. xvi. "When they had sworn to this advised doom." Shakesp.: Tarquin and Lucrece. "In other words, he may either have been aware of the circumstance or not aware; it may either have been present to his mind or not present. In the first case, the act may be said to have been an advised act, with respect to the circumstances; in the other case, an unadvised one."- Bowring : Bentham's Works, 1. 42. ad-vì'-şěd-lỹ, adv. [ADVISED.] With mature IMG:content-0215.png:[blocks in formation] "Ten schippes were dryven, through ille avisement, Thorgh a tempest ryven, the schipmen held them schent."-Langtoft: Chron., p. 148.