advise

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

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.

• IPA^(key): /ədˈvaɪz/
• Hyphenation: ad‧vise

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

advise (third-person singular simple present advises, present participle advising, simple past and past participle advised)

1. (transitive) To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

   Synonyms: counsel, warn; see also Thesaurus:advise

   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.

2. (transitive) To recommend; to offer as advice.

   The dentist advised brushing three times a day.

3. (transitive) To formally give information or notice to; to inform or counsel. [with of ‘what is communicated’]

   Synonyms: inform, notify; see also Thesaurus:inform

   We were advised of the risk.

   • 2025 June 12, Kevin Liptak, quoting U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “Trump didn’t want Israel to strike. They did it anyway.”, in CNN.com‎^[1]:

     Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.

4. (intransitive) To consider, to deliberate. [with of]
   • 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.

5. (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 […]

6. (obsolete, intransitive) To consult (with). [with 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.

7. (Scots law) To deliver judgment after a case has been reserved for further consideration.

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.

advise

1. Misspelling of advice.

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

• Davies, avised, davies, visaed