Discounsel
Origin
From Old French desconseillier.
Full definition of discounsel
Verb
- (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 ....