Obs. Pl. -oes. [ad. Sp. aviso advice, intelligence; also, an advice-boat:—late L. advīsum: see ADVICE, under the influence of which, and the cognate Eng. words, adviso became common in Eng., though AVISO (q.v.) was also used, and is now the only form (in sense 3).]
1. Information, intelligence; an official notification, dispatch, or ‘advice.’ Obs. (Sense retained in ADVICE 8.)
1594. Carew, Tasso’s Godfr. Bvlloigne (1881), 119. William … This fresh aduiso sendeth you by mee.
1622. F. Markham, Dec. Warre, III. ix. § 4. 114. By the imployment of Spies, by Traytors or by some other advisoes.
2. pompously, An advice, counsel, suggestion.
1591. Raleigh, Fight of Revenge, 15. Slandrous Pamphlets, aduisoes and Letters.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., I. § 19. Who forgetting the honest advisoes of Faith, have listened unto the conspiracy of Passion and Reason.
1676. in Phil. Trans., XI. 573. Our modern [writers] have been free of their Adviso’s to prompt the studious.
3. (Also Caraval of adviso.) A dispatch or advice-boat; in which sense the word survives in the form AVISO.
1624. Capt. Smith, Virginia, V. 179. The aduenturers sent them an aduiso with thirtie Passengers.
1642. Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., II. xxi. 138. The King of Spain knew of it, and sent a Caravall of adviso to the West Indies.
1650. R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low Countrey Warres, VI. 8. Who dispatched back his Adviso with more then ordinary speed.
