• Discounsel

    Origin

    From Old French desconseillier.

    Full definition of discounsel

    Verb

    1. (obsolete, transitive) To advise (someone) against doing something. 15th-17th c.
      • Spenser Faerie Queene, II.xii:But him the Palmer from that vanity,
        With temperate aduice discounselled ....
      • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, I.41:Anthony de Leva, seeing the Emperor his master resolutely obstinate to undertake that voyage, and deeming it wonderfully glorious, maintained neverthelesse the contrarie, and discounselled him from it ....

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