a.; also 7–9 adviseable. [f. ADVISE + -ABLE.]
1. Of persons: Able to be advised; open to advice.
1661. Fell, Life of Hammond, § 2. 183 (T.). He was so strangely adviseable, that he would advert unto the judgement of the meanest person.
1775. Wesley, in Four Cents. Eng. Lett. (1881), 231. Pray for an advisable and teachable temper.
1866. Pall Mall G., 21 May, 12/1. Seeing, however, that it pays Derby prophets to advertise, we presume that men are sometimes morbidly advisable.
2. Of things: Proper to be advised or recommended; expedient, prudent.
1650. Cromwell, Lett. & Sp. (Carl.), Let. 87. I did not think advisable to attempt upon the Enemy, lying as he doth.
1667. Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, II. II. § 11. 250 (R.). Whether to confess to a Priest, be an adviseable discipline … is no part of the Question.
1790. Cowper, Odyssey, XV. 615. It were a course Now not adviseable.
1851. Mariotti, Italy, iii. 150. Various reasons … seemed to render advisable the abandonment of the Tyrol.
