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Webster 1913 Edition


Disadvise

Disˊad-vise′

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Verb.
T.
To advise against; to dissuade from.
[R.]
Boyle.

Definition 2024


disadvise

disadvise

English

Verb

disadvise (third-person singular simple present disadvises, present participle disadvising, simple past and past participle disadvised)

  1. (transitive) To advise against; to dissuade from.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Boyle to this entry?)
    • 1825, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones: A Foundling, Volume 1, Digitized edition, published 2008, page 123:
      In this case, therefore, I conceive the plaintiff must be nonsuited and I should disadvise the bringing any such action.

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