Chapter Adventive to Advocate of A by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; — used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice. McElrath.

4. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton.

Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. — To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

Syn. — Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.

Advisability
(Ad*vis`a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

Advisable
(Ad*vis"a*ble) a.

1. Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent.

Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day.
South.

2. Ready to receive advice. [R.] South.

Syn. — Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting.

Advisable-ness
(Ad*vis"a*ble-ness), n. The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

Advisably
(Ad*vis"a*bly), adv. With advice; wisely.

Advise
(Ad*vise") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Advising ] [OE. avisen to perceive, consider, inform, F. aviser, fr. LL. advisare. advisare; ad + visare, fr. L. videre, visum, to see. See Advice, and cf. Avise.]

1. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn. "I shall no more advise thee." Milton.

2. To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk.

To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [Obs.]

Bid thy master well advise himself.
Shak.

Syn. — To counsel; admonish; apprise; acquaint.

Advise
(Ad*vise"), v. t.

1. To consider; to deliberate. [Obs.]

Advise if this be worth attempting.
Milton.

2. To take counsel; to consult; — followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

Advisedly
(Ad*vis"ed*ly) adv.

1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. [Obs.] Shak.

2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.

Advisedness
(Ad*vis"ed*ness) n. Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.