Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of advice, advise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To look at; to view; to think of.
- transitive verb obsolete To advise; to counsel.
- transitive verb [Obs.] to consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate.
- intransitive verb obsolete To consider; to reflect.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete spelling of
advise .
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Examples
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And when, at the end of the broadcast Fifi jumped up for the Hitler Salute, some 800 men in 38 states keeled over stone dead, each with hands clutched on his crotch like avise!
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Mason, I'd avise you to take a tranquilizer and think about the following for a while:
If We Live in a Multiverse, How Many Are There? | Universe Today 2009
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After many long distance phone calls to the head office, trying to ascertain the expertise of the outfit to avise on light-rail, all we got was a video on PRT, with the comment that no one was building with light rail anymore and PRT was the way to go!
Premier Gordon Campbell defends Gateway Program « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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Que nos avise si necesite ayuda del grupo de Northern Alaska Peace Corps Friends.
Ok, but what do you actually do? Gail 2009
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And albeit ye knaw the Appointment was maid be our avise, [910] yitt we acceptit the samin at your desyre, and hes sensyne maid na cause quhairby thay mycht be movit to cum in the contrair thairof.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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Where the Court lyes? what stirre? change? what avise
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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Noble men being in Striveling for the tyme, be your Gracis avise, solisted us to pass to the Congregatioun convened at the town of
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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'Y suplico á sus mercedes sean servidos dar licencia para que se le diga al dicho padre prior [Fray Gabriel Pinelo] que avise á Ana de Espinosa, monja en el monasterio de Madrigal, que envíe una caja de unos polvos que ella solia hacer y enviarme para mis melancolías y pasiones de corazon, que ella sola los sabe hacer, y nunca tuve dellos mas necesidad que agora;
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Huntlie, and Monsieur Dosell, on the ane pairt, and the Lordis of the Congregatioun, on the uther syde; quhilk Appointment we have approvit in all poyntis, albeit it was taikin by our avise; and is myndit to observe and keip all the contentis thairof for our pairt.
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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And all thir thingis togidder, ar done without the avise or consent of the
The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox
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