# advise
## English
### Alternative forms

* advize (obsolete)
* avise [13th–16th c.]
* avize [16th c.]

### 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: /ədˈvaɪz/
* Hyphenation: ad‧vise
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪz

### Verb

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)
* (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.
* (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.
    The dentist advised brushing three times a day.
* (transitive) To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated.
    We were advised of the risk.
* (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.
* (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 […]
* (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.
* (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

| infinitive | (to) advise | (to) advise |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | advise | advised |
| 2nd-person singular | advise, advisest$^†$ | advised, advisedst$^†$ |
| 3rd-person singular | advises, adviseth$^†$ | advised |
| plural | advise | advised |
| subjunctive | advise | advised |
| imperative | advise | — |
| participles | advising | advised |
$^†$Archaic or obsolete.

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* advice
* advisable
* advisee
* advisement
* adviser
* advisingly
* advisive
* advisor
* advisory
* counteradvise
* disadvise
* foreadvise
* misadvise
* readvise
* unadvise

#### Translations
### Noun

advise
* Misspelling of advice.

### References

* “advise, v.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Davies, avised, davies, visaed