ppl. a. [f. COUNSEL v.]

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  † 1.  Advised, determined, come to a decision.

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1525.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. lxxvii. [lxxiii.] 229. Ye Erle of Foyze … was soone counsayled in hymselfe.

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  2.  Advised, recommended to be done.

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1661.  Boyle, Style Script. (1675), 33. Those armies would probably hinder the counselled retirement.

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1700.  Dryden, Fables, 455 (J.). His counsell’d crime which brands the Grecian Name.

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