#695.  Advice. —­ N. advice, counsel, adhortation|; word to the wise;
suggestion, submonition|, recommendation, advocacy; advisement.
     exhortation &c. (persuasion) 615; expostulation &c. (dissuasion) 616;
admonition &c. (warning) 668; guidance &c. (direction) 693.
     instruction, charge, injunction, obtestation[obs3]; Governor’s
message, President’s message; King’s message, Queen’s speech; message, speech from the throne.
     adviser, prompter; counsel, counselor; monitor, mentor, Nestor, magnus
Apollo[Lat][obs3], senator; teacher &c. 540.
     guide, manual, chart &c. (information) 527.
     physician, doctor, leech|!, archiater[obs3].
     arbiter &c. (judge) 967.
     reference, referment[obs3]; consultation, conference, pourparler. 
     V. advise, counsel; give advice, give counsel, give a piece of
advice[Fr]; suggest, prompt, submonish[obs3], recommend, prescribe, advocate; exhort &c. (persuade) 615.
     enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon &c. (request) 765;
dictate.
     expostulate &c. (dissuade) 616; admonish &c. (warn) 668.
     advise with; lay heads together, consult together; compare notes; hold
a council, deliberate, be closeted with.
     confer, consult, refer to, call in; take advice, follow advice; be
advised by, have at one’s elbow, take one’s cue from. 
     Adj. recommendatory; hortative &c. (persuasive) 615; dehortatory &c.
(dissuasive) 616[obs3]; admonitory &c. (warning) 668. 
     Int. go to! 
     Phr. “give every man thine ear but few thy voice” [Hamlet]; “I pray
thee cease thy counsel” [Much Ado About Nothing]; “my guide, philosopher, and friend” [Pope]; “’twas good advice and meant, my son be good” [Crabbe]; verbum sat sapienti [Latin:  a word to the wise is sufficient]; vive memor leti[Lat]; “we, ask advice but we mean approbation” [Colton].

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     #696.  Council. —­ N. council, committee, subcommittee, comitia[Lat],
court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.
     senate, senatus[Lat], parliament, chamber of deputies, directory,
reichsrath[Ger], rigsdag, cortes[Sp], storthing[obs3], witenagemote[obs3], junta, divan, musnud[obs3], sanhedrim; classis[obs3]; Amphictyonic council[obs3]; duma[Russ], house of representatives; legislative assembly, legislative council; riksdag[obs3], volksraad[Ger], witan[obs3], caput[obs3], consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal &c. (tribunal) 966; board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.
     audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.
     cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod, congress,
convention, diet, states-general.
     [formal gathering of members of a council:  script] assembly, caucus,
conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance, conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler, durbar[obs3], house; quorum; council fire