KJV Dictionary Definition: advisable

advisable

ADVI'SABLE, a. See Advise.

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

It is not advisable to proceed, at this time, to a choice of officers.

2. Open to advice.

advisableness

ADVI'SABLENESS, n. The quality of being advisable or expedient.

advise

ADVI'SE, v.t. s as z. See Advice.

1. To give counsel to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; as, I advise you to be cautious of speculation.

2. To give information; to communicate notice; to make acquainted with; followed by of, before the thing communicated; as, the merchants were advised of the risk.

3. To deliberate, consider, or consult.

Advise thyself of what word I shall bring again to him that sent me. 1Ch. 21.

But in this sense, it is usually intransitive.

ADVI'SE, v.i. To deliberate, weigh well, or consider.

Advise and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me. 2Sam. 24.

To advise with is to consult for the purpose of taking the opinions of others.

advised

ADVI'SED, pp.

1. Informed; counseled; also cautious; prudent; acting with deliberation.

Let him be advised in his answers.

With the well advised is wisdom. Prov. 13.

2. Done, formed, or taken with advice or deliberation; intended; as, an advised act or scheme.

advisement

ADVI'SEMENT, n.

1. Counsel; information; circumspection.

2. Consultation.

The action standing continued nisi for advisement.

adviser

ADVI'SER, n. One who gives advice or admonition; also, in a bad sense, one who instigates or persuades.

advising

ADVI'SING, ppr. Giving counsel.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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