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Answer for the clue "Gave counsel ", 7 letters:
advised

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Word definitions for advised in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the benefit of careful prior consideration or counsel; "a well-advised delay in carrying out the plan" [syn: well-advised ] [ant: ill-advised ] having received information; "be kept advised"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
advised \ad*vised"\ adj. 1 Carefully thought out; likely to be the best course; -- said of actions. Often used in combination; as, ill-advised, well-advised. Also See: wise unadvised, ill-advised Syn: considered, well-advised Having received information; ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 consider or thought out; resulting from deliberation. 2 inform, appraised or made aware. v (en-past of: advise )

Usage examples of advised.

She entered heart and soul into the details of the enterprise, advised and dissuaded: and finally a contract was drawn up by which Kathleen was to receive eight guineas for her services as accompanist at the four grand concerts.

The apportionment of space which is made in considering the various diseases and their different stages, as well as the course which the people are advised to pursue under the different circumstances of affliction, is not always in accordance with the plans and recommendations which have been made by others who have written works on domestic medicine.

Berlin, from Jenny Brunies or Jenny Angustri, as she now called herself, for Haseloff her ballet master and Madame Neroda, the managing director of the Strength-through-Joy Ballet, now the German Ballet, had advised her to take a stage name.

I had not decerned she was to do any work to Mrs Girdwood, but only to stay out her term, advised her to do nothing when she went back but go to her bed, which she was bardy enough to do, until my poor friend, the deacon, in order to get a quiet riddance of her, was glad to pay her full fee, and board wages for the remainder of her time.

Doctor Shores advised Miss Bartram to go away for a rest, and I advised the same.

His goal was the inn, and he had been advised in Berwick to cross the Yonder by what was known as the Roman Brig, and then to bend right through a firwood, to cross a strip of moor, to traverse the village of Yonder, and so find the inn a mile beyond on the hill above the stream.

More and more she was convinced that the whole Pell operation was busywork, that Mazian might be doing precisely what she had advised all along, keeping the troops busy, keeping even his crews and captains busy, while the real operation here was that on Downbelow and what he proposed with the mines and short-haulers, the gathering of supplies, the repairs, the sorting of station personnel for identification and capture of all those fugitives who might surface and make takeover easy and cheap for Union.

The illustrious John Hunter advised a man afflicted with hypospadias to impregnate his wife by vaginal injections of semen in water with an ordinary syringe, and, in spite of the simplicity of this method, the attempt was followed by a successful issue.

The bishops, instead of promising succor or suggesting comfort, recapitulated to him all the instances of his maleadministration, and advised him thenceforwards to follow more salutary counsel.

He began now to imagine that Mallard, from reasons of disinterested friendship, had advised Cecily to seek some retreat, and would not disclose the secret.

Herbert Mandrill, by his own account, had been advised to get out of physics, find something else to do.

Numerous traders of that nation have shops opened throughout the islands, their business being carried on by one of their own countrymen, generally the principal person of the concern, who remains resident at Manilla, while his various agents in the country keep him advised of their wants, to meet which he makes large purchases from the merchants, and forwards the same to his country friends.

He advised her to visit Lady Fanny Marling in the morning, and this she in the end decided to do.

At Metro, the director of nursing advised us just to ignore anyone who did.

When Alison explained that she was to accompany Milord in ten minutes, the valet tutted crossly and advised her to pick up a slice of the roast beef and a couple of chunks of bread.