advise

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To offer advice to; counsel.
2. v. To recommend; suggest: advised patience.
3. v. Usage Problem To inform; notify.
4. v. To take counsel; consult: She advised with her associates.
5. v. To offer advice.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To look at; view.
2. To give counsel to; offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed: as, I advise you to be cautious *** speculation.
3. To recommend as wise, *** etc.; suggest as the proper course of action: as, under these circumstances we advise abstinence.
4. To give information to; communicate notice to; make acquainted with: followed by of before the thing communicated: as, the merchants were advised of the risk.
5. Synonyms To counsel, admonish, suggest (to), recommend (to).—4. To inform, apprise, acquaint.
6. To deliberate; take thought; consider; reflect: sometimes used reflexively.
7. To take counsel; join others in deliberating; seek the advice of another or others: followed by with: as, I shall advise with my friends as to what is to be done.
8. To counsel; give advice: as, I will act as you advise.
9. [Advise and its derivatives have been used by old writers in a number of other applications connected with the notions of seeing, viewing, reflecting, etc., suggested by the etymology.]

Wiktionary

1. v. obsolete, transitive To look at, watch; to see.
2. v. transitive To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
3. v. transitive To give information or notice to; to inform; — with of before the thing communicated.
4. v. intransitive To consider, to deliberate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.
2. v. To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated.
3. v. obsolete To consider; to deliberate.
4. v. To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. make a proposal, declare a plan for something
2. v. inform (somebody) of something
3. v. give advice to