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advisedly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /ədˈvaɪ.zɪd.li/

Etymology

Etymology tree English advised Middle English -ly English -ly English advisedly From advised + -ly.

Meanings

1. With intentionality, and deliberately, usually also with a connotation of due consideration and wise choosing.
   • […] seeing in many such occasions of common life we advisedly do renounce or waive our own opinions, absolutely yielding to the direction of others a. 1683, Isaac Barrow, Sermon LIX, “Of obedience to our spiritual guides and governors”
   • The tongue is a sharp and parlous weapon, which we are bound to keep up in the sheath, or never to draw forth but advisedly, and upon just occasion; it must ever be wielded with caution and care: to brandish it wantonly, to lay about with it blindly and furiously, to slash and smite therewith any that happeth to come in our way, doth argue malice or madness. a. 1678, Isaac Barrow, “Sermon XVII. The Folly of Slander.”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, D.D. […], volume I (Containing Twenty-four Sermons on Several Occasions), Oxford, Oxfordshire: University Press, published 1830, →OCLC, paragraph 6, pages 502–503:
   • Of the remaining 580 channels, 2.5 channels had no fuel element in them and no orifice. We assumed advisedly that these transmitted twice as much air as an unorificed, unplugged channel loaded with a fuel cartridge. 1951 July, Melville Clark, Jr., “Numerical Results and Conclusions”, in Axial Heat Distribution in Brookhaven Reactor (BNL-123), Upton, N.Y.: Brookhaven National Laboratory, →OCLC, page 17:
2. As prescribed by an authority, especially a dictionary
   • Now when I say the seal is vicious I use the term advisedly, according to Webster's 9th New Collegiate, definition 4b 1993, The Mountain Goats, “Beach House”:
   • By contrast, unelemental philosophy no longer has as its focal point humanity's relation to the world. Man (I use this term advisedly) becomes an analysing spectator of his existence, as opposed to a participant in it. 2021, David Lorimer, A Quest for Wisdom:

Forms

Antonyms

ill-advisedly · inadvisedly

Relateds

advisability · advisedness · advisably · inadvisably

Translations (9)

it a ragion veduta (With intentionality; deliberately) · it con cognizione di causa (With intentionality; deliberately) · fi harkitusti (With intentionality; deliberately) · nl doelbewust (With intentionality; deliberately) · it intenzionalmente (With intentionality; deliberately) · bg обмислено (With intentionality; deliberately) · fr intentionnellement (With intentionality; deliberately) · ga d'aon toisc (With intentionality; deliberately) · it deliberatamente (With intentionality; deliberately)