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Counsel v. t. (past & past part. counseled or counselled; pres. part. counseling or counselling)

To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. "Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place."

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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... more than an hour, and when he was done his hearers were as madmen and madwomen. And yet so skilfully had he phrased his utterances, so craftily had he injected the hot poison, so deftly had he avoided counselling outright disobedience to the law, that sundry secret-service men who had been detailed to attend the meeting and to arrest the speaker, United States representative though he be, in case he preached a single ...

— The Thunders of Silence • Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

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... to my heart's content. The bags were big, but I was constrained to stuff them only in proportion to the strength of my beasts. The Darwaysh, too, busied himself in like manner, but he charged his sacks with gems and jewels only, counselling me the while to do as he did. So I cast aside the ducats and filled my bags with naught save the most precious of the stonery. When we had wrought our best, we set the well-stuffed sacks upon the camels' backs and we made ...

— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

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... became so great that he found he could not talk connectedly, so he concluded by counselling that they should go to the Springs fully armed, and ready to brave the worst. There was a loud shout of approval, and then Erling started up. His manner and tone were subdued, but his face was flushed; and men could see, as he went on, that he was keeping down ...

— Erling the Bold • R.M. Ballantyne

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... thy lineage nor of thy kindred? Wherefore do thou away this reproach by putting him to death. Indeed, we do but urge thee unto this for the assurance of thine empire and of our zeal for thy loyal counselling and of our love to thee. How can it be lawful that this youth should live for a ...

— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne

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... witness, who must himself have been a saint. This witness, whose name history ought to preserve, was the Augustine monk already mentioned, Brother Isambart de la Pierre. During the trial he had hazarded his life by counselling the Pucelle, and yet, though so clearly pointed out to the hate of the English, he persisted in accompanying her in the cart, procured the parish crucifix for her, and comforted her in the midst of the raging multitude, both on the scaffold ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

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