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Advisement

Advisement \Ad*vise"ment\ ([a^]d*v[imac]z"ment), n. [OE. avisement, F. avisement, fr. aviser. See Advise, and cf. Avisement.]

  1. Counsel; advice; information. [Archaic]

    And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep.
    --Daniel.

  2. Consideration; deliberation; consultation.

    Tempering the passion with advisement slow.
    --Spenser.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
advisement

early 14c., avisement "examination, inspection, observation," from Old French avisement "consideration, reflection," from aviser (see advise). Meaning "advice, counsel" is from c.1400, as is that of "consultation, conference."

Wiktionary
advisement

n. 1 (context now US English) consideration or deliberation. 2 (context archaic English) advice, counsel.

WordNet
advisement

n. careful consideration; "a little deliberation would have deterred them" [syn: deliberation, weighing]

Usage examples of "advisement".

The Court took the case under advisement, but Congress changed the law by the act of February 28, 1793, before decision was rendered.

I still somewhat work for them, despite my advisements to the contrary, and the plain fact is that I do mediate.

You take care of your own family, love Jill, take care of those kids, and take any of my advisements of problems from here on out as simple advisements, not requisitions for miracles.

Our presence has been acknowledged and our official request to participate in the Olympiad has been taken under advisement.

When the old fool, Douver, set down the papers the Council of Septs had for him to sign, Phoran had just picked them up, tucked them under his arm, and announced to the almost empty room that he would take them under advisement.

Moni and Taigi arrived in the morning with his bre fast cart-and the advisement from staff central d Tabini-aiji wanted him in early audience.

If, and I say if with advisement, Komarov can be discredited, his popular support culled away from him, what then, Nigel?

There was the low drone of Khym's voice, making routine advisements to the dockers and station com, and Hilfy's voice talking quietly to Aja Jin and Moon Rising.

Haral said, while com crackled and sputtered with advisements from the rest of the group: Moon Rising had to be subtracted out of jump equations all the way down the run, a contingency that was all too close to happening.

And tried to remember what to do next, which was to read the advisements comp was programmed to hand her, data and detail matches to check against the autos.

Hilfy made acknowledgments, passed advisements, in a wan, tired voice.

They were short of sleep, facing another hard couple of jumps by the sound of the intercom advisements, and Chad had re-declared their war while they’d gotten to that raw and rough-inside feeling of exhaustion, stinging eyes, aching backs, headache and the rest of it.

The weather reports at the Base had been saying there was a low in the gulf, up from the southern continent But those were advisements relayed from the station.

There'd been a visicard hand-clipped to the front of the manual, a quick and easy condensation of the rules, specific advisements for this port, even a good fast study for the arcane procedures of getting into a sleepover-one of those dens of iniquity stationers viewed as exotic and dangerous and about which teenaged stationers entertained prurient curiosity.

They were short of sleep, facing another hard couple of jumps by the sound of the intercom advisements, and Chad had re-declared their war while they'd gotten to that raw and rough-inside feeling of exhaustion, stinging eyes, aching backs, headache and the rest of it.