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well(-)adˈvised, ppl. a.
In 4–5 avised.
1. Of persons: Prudent, wary, cautious, circumspect.
In modern use chiefly predicative, as ‘He would be well-advised to give up the idea’.
αc1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋2514 A man þat is wel auysed, he drediþ his lest enemy. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 141 Hooly Awstyn, sad and wel avised, Kneuhe by signes this compleynt was no fable. a1466Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Cit. Lond. (Camden) 158 That Parlyment hadde an evylle faryng ende, to shamefully for to be namyd of any welavysyd man.
β1500–20Dunbar Poems xli. 2 Be ȝe ane luvar, think ȝe nocht ȝe suld Be weill adwysit in ȝour gouerning? 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. 15 b, A most valiant & well aduised knight. 1594Shakes. Rich III, iv. iv. 517 Hath any well-aduised friend proclaym'd Reward to him that brings the Traytor in? 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1638) 288 The well aduised and valiant captaine Kanacontes.
absol.1560Bible (Genev.) Prov. xiii. 10 With the wel aduised is wisedome. [And so 1611.]
†b. with const. Careful or heedful of or that ―.
c1386Chaucer Miller's T. 398 Be well auysed on that ilke nyght..That noon of vs ne speke nat a word. c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xviii, Also þat he be..wele auysed of speche. c1450Merlin iii. 45 Quod the kynge, Be well avised that ye knowe it is he. And thei seide, We knowe verely it is he. 1579–80North Plutarch, Lycurgus (1595) 57 To another he put forth a question, who was to be well aduised of his aunswer.
†c. In one's right mind, sane. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 434 And were you well aduis'd? 1590― Com. Err. ii. ii. 215 Am I..Sleeping or waking, mad or well aduisde?
2. Of actions, etc.: Based on wise counsel or careful consideration.
a1470Harding Chron. clxxvi. viii. (1812) 314 The kyng full sad, with wordes well auysed, Thanked them all. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. viii. 140, I hope I should not be found wanting either in spirit or perseverance to carry out well-advised plans. 1850Grote Greece II. lxiv. VIII. 203 Construing their studied and well-advised silence into a proof of oblivion.
Hence well-adˈvisedly adv.
1587Golding De Mornay ix. (1592) 127 He..seemeth to speake discreetely and weladuisedly. 1648–58Hexham ii, Wel-bedachtelick, Well-advisedly, or Considerately. |