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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To offer advice to; counsel.
  • intransitive verb To recommend; suggest.
  • intransitive verb To inform; notify.
  • intransitive verb To offer advice.
  • intransitive verb To take counsel; consult.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To look at; view.
  • To give counsel to; offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed: as, I advise you to be cautious *** speculation.
  • To recommend as wise, *** etc.; suggest as the proper course of action: as, under these circumstances we advise abstinence.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms To counsel, admonish, suggest (to), recommend (to).—4. To inform, apprise, acquaint.
  • To deliberate; take thought; consider; reflect: sometimes used reflexively.
  • To take counsel; join others in deliberating; seek the advice of another or others: followed by with: as, I shall advise with my friends as to what is to be done.
  • To counsel; give advice: as, I will act as you advise.
  • [Advise and its derivatives have been used by old writers in a number of other applications connected with the notions of seeing, viewing, reflecting, etc., suggested by the etymology.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
  • transitive verb To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated.
  • transitive verb [Obs.] to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider.
  • transitive verb obsolete To consider; to deliberate.
  • transitive verb To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete, transitive To look at, watch; to see.
  • verb transitive To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
  • verb transitive To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.
  • verb intransitive To consider, to deliberate.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make a proposal, declare a plan for something
  • verb inform (somebody) of something
  • verb give advice to

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English avisen, advisen, from Old French aviser, from avis, advice; see advice.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Middle English avisen ("to perceive, consider, inform"), from Old French aviser, from Late Latin advisare, from ad + visare, from Latin videre ("to see"), visum (past participle of videre). See also advice.

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