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Counsel   /kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
noun
Counsel  n.  
1.
Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation. "All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death."
2.
Examination of consequences; exercise of deliberate judgment; prudence. "They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used."
3.
Result of consultation; advice; instruction. "I like thy counsel; well hast thou advised." "It was ill counsel had misled the girl."
4.
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. "The counsel of the Lord standeth forever." "The counsels of the wicked are deceit."
5.
A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter. "Thilke lord... to whom no counsel may be hid."
6.
One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel. "The King found his counsel as refractory as his judges." Note: In some courts a distinction is observed between the attorney and the counsel in a cause, the former being employed in the management of the more mechanical parts of the suit, the latter in attending to the pleadings, managing the cause at the trial, and in applying the law to the exigencies of the case during the whole progress of the suit. In other courts the same person can exercise the powers of each. See Attorney.
In counsel, in secret. (Obs.)
To keep counsel, or
To keep one's own counsel, to keep one's thoughts, purposes, etc., undisclosed. "The players can not keep counsel: they 'll tell all."
Synonyms: Advice; consideration; consultation; purpose; scheme; opinion.


verb
Counsel  v. t.  (past & past part. counseled or counselled; pres. part. counseling or counselling)  
1.
To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person. "Good sir, I do in friendship counsel you To leave this place."
2.
To advise or recommend, as an act or course. "They who counsel war." "Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth."





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... invariably beneficial. There is every reason why this should be so if the common-sense precautions are observed of keeping a level head, exercising patience, exhibiting unselfishness and sincerity, and desiring good spiritual counsel ...
— Genuine Mediumship or The Invisible Powers • Bhakta Vishita
... Handsome—for that his face was fair and his works were fairer and he was a meeting-place of fairest deeds; and the same was wont to stand at the Wali's door as a symbol of ruth to mankind. So he came forward and said, "O Emir, this were not the rede which is right and yonder man's words lack good counsel, seeing that none hath complained against this folk and we know not an the accused be a thief or not: furthermore we fear consequences for that haply this merchant speaketh with an object, they having forbidden ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... dignity in which Providence had placed her, or depart from her appeal to Heaven, there was only one other tribunal to which she would appeal from all her enemies; to the justice and humanity of Elizabeth's own breast, and to that lenity which, uninfluenced by malignant counsel, she would naturally be induced to exercise towards her: and that she finally entreated her to resume her natural disposition, and to reflect on the support, as well as comfort, which she might receive from her son and herself, if, joining the obligations of gratitude ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume
... it, and his opinion asked as to the wisdom of the young artist's persevering in the career he had chosen. Allston advised his quitting it forthwith as hopeless. Could the same experiment have been tried with these verses upon Dryden, can any one doubt that his counsel would have been the same? It should be remembered, however, that he was barely turned eighteen when they were written, and the tendency of his style is noticeable in so early an abandonment of the participial ed in learned ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... careful to keep all things secret, for I well knew, if she should take counsel of any friend, my hopes would be frustrated, therefore I suddenly procured her consent to marry, unto which she assented; so that upon the eighth day of September, 1627, at St. George's church in Southwark, I was married unto her, and for two whole years we kept it secret. When it was ...
— William Lilly's History of His Life and Times - From the Year 1602 to 1681 • William Lilly


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