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Verb

discounsel ‎(third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle discounselling, simple past and past participle discounselled)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To advise (someone) against doing something. [15th-17th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.xii:

     But him the Palmer from that vanity, / With temperate aduice discounselled […].

   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.41:

     Anthony de Leva, seeing the Emperor his master resolutely obstinate to undertake that voyage, and deeming it wonderfully glorious, maintained neverthelesse the contrarie, and discounselled him from it […].

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