[f. ADVISE + -ER1.]
1. One who advises or counsels.
1611. Florio, Avisatore, an aduiser, an advertiser.
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., xiv. § 1. 210. When obedience is yielded to the Lawes, not for the thing it self, but by reason of the advisers will, the Law is not a Counsell, but a Command.
1741. Middleton, Cicero (1742), II. vii. 266. I … who from the very first have always been the adviser of peace.
1863. Cox, Inst. Eng. Govt., I. v. 29. The advisers of the Crown have taken upon themselves the responsibility.
2. One who sends advice or notice of anything.
1854. De Quincey, in Page (1877), II. xviii. 83. To you, as being (I think) my latest adviser from Tipperary, I address my answer.
† 3. A dispatch-boat; an A(D)VISO. Obs.
1658–9. in Burton’s Diary (1828), III. 383. One-hundred-and-twenty sail, whereof ten are advisers, and as many fire-ships.
