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noun

Advice n.

An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel. "We may give advice, but we can not give conduct."

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. (Obs.) "How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her?"

Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. Note: In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.

(Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat.

To take advice.

(a)

To accept advice.

(b)

To consult with another or others.

Synonyms: Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice.

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— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh

... able to take measures to preserve either their lives or their property—so instantaneous will be the rush of the mighty streams, like ocean floods, from the mountains you can see in the West. My advice to you is to commence at once the construction of boats to carry you and your most precious effects away. When the news first comes that the waters are rising, have them anchored in the creek that flows close by your doors; and when the crisis ...

— Chinese Folk-Lore Tales • J. Macgowan

... are going to try everything in order to support the opera, in spite of a certain disappointment around you, and even to put it on its legs. To assist you in this most laudable zeal I give you the following advice: Let Genast, whom I cordially thank for his friendship, before the resumption of "Lohengrin", call the whole personnel to a reading rehearsal; let the singers read their parts in connection, distinctly ...

— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 1 • Francis Hueffer (translator)

... boy waited, and as he waited he had a chance to look around the library and into the books. The rector's faithful housekeeper said he might when he repeated what Wendell Phillips had told him of the interest that was to be found in her master's books. Edward did not tell her of Mr. Phillips's advice to "borrow" a couple of books. He reserved that bit of information for the rector of Trinity when he came ...

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... her room and sat by the window, and every now and then shouted advice to Lord George who was playing with me. When we had finished, Lady Westaway took me to see the conservatories, and there we were joined by old Colonel Blake and Lord Valmond, I don't know how he had torn himself away from Mrs. Westaway! Jane Roose says Mrs. Smith would be mad if she was ...

— The Visits of Elizabeth • Elinor Glyn

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