discounsel
discounsel verb: to advise (someone) against doing something.
Verb
discounsel (third-person singular simple present discounsels, present participle (US) discounseling or (UK) discounselling, simple past and past participle (US) discounseled or (UK) discounselled)
- To advise (someone) against doing something.
- But him the Palmer from that vanity, / With temperate aduice discounselled […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- 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[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 41, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
Forms of discounsel
| third-person singular present | discounsels |
|---|---|
| present participle US | discounseling |
| present participle UK | discounselling |
| past participle US | discounseled |
| past US | discounseled |
| past participle UK | discounselled |
| past UK | discounselled |
Origin of discounsel
From Old French desconseillier.
Questions about discounsel
- What does discounsel mean?
- Discounsel means to advise (someone) against doing something.
- What part of speech is discounsel?
- Discounsel is a verb.
- What is the past tense of discounsel?
- The past tense of discounsel is discounseled.
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