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Counsel   /kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
noun
Counsel  n.  
1.
Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. "All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death."
2.
Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. "They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used."
3.
Result of consultation; advice; instruction. "I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised." "It was ill counsel had misled the girl."
4.
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. "The counsel of the Lord standeth forever." "The counsels of the wicked are deceit."
5.
A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. "Thilke lord... to whom no counsel may be hid."
6.
One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. "The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges." Note: In some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management of the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney.
In counsel, in secret. (Obs.)
To keep counsel, or
To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed. "The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all."
Synonyms: Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme; opinion.


verb
Counsel  v. t.  (past & past part. counseled or counselled; pres. part. counseling or counselling)  
1.
To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. "Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place."
2.
To advise or recommend, as an act or course. "They who counsel war." "Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth."





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"Counsel" Quotes from Famous Books



... isle beyond the sea, and, gifted with the Celtic wit, was also in logic clear as the tones of a bell, while his insight into human motives was almost superhuman. Lovell had had occasion in other years to rely on Sutton's counsel, and now would listen to no refusal of his services. As it turned out, the lawyer's mission in Ogalalla was so closely in sympathy with Lovell's trouble that they naturally strengthened each other. The highest tribunal of justice in Ogalalla was the county ...
— The Outlet • Andy Adams
... world. She would have earned it and used it well. She could have helped him, inspired him. They would have worked together: he the force and she the guidance. She would have supplied the things he lacked. It was to her he came for counsel, as it was. But for her he would never have taken the first step. What right had this poor brainless lump of painted flesh to share his wounds, his triumphs? What help could she give him when the time should come ...
— All Roads Lead to Calvary • Jerome K. Jerome
... wariest statesman have better parried that question? Not on one single occasion during the long series of questions that Joan of Arc was made to undergo, without any counsel or help, and with some of the subtlest brains in the country eager to involve her in damaging statements and to entangle her in saying something which might be taken up as injurious to Charles—that mean prince, who ...
— Joan of Arc • Ronald Sutherland Gower
... said he, when the last of them had come, "I have sore need of your wisdom and counsel. Hark to the mournful ...
— Beatrix of Clare • John Reed Scott
... Giant said, "Then carry him I will, Since that to carry me he was so slack— To render, as the gods do, good for ill; But lend a hand to place him on my back." Orlando answered, "If my counsel still May weigh, Morgante, do not undertake To lift or carry this dead courser, who, As you have done to him, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron


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