单词 | advisable |
释义 | advisable, a.|ædˈvaɪzəb(ə)l| Also 7–9 adviseable. [f. advise + -able.] 1. Of persons: Able to be advised; open to advice.
1661Fell Life of Hammond (T.) He was so strangely adviseable, that he would advert unto the judgement of the meanest person. 1775Wesley in Four Cents. Eng. Lett. (1881) 231 Pray for an advisable and teachable temper. 1866Pall Mall G. 21 May 12 Seeing, however, that it pays Derby prophets to advertise, we presume that men are sometimes morbidly advisable. 2. Of things: Proper to be advised or recommended; expedient, prudent.
1647Jer. Taylor Dissuas. Popery i. ii. §16 (R.) Whether to confess to a priest be an adviseable discipline..is no part of the question. 1650Cromwell Lett. & Sp. (Carl.) Let. 87 I did not think advisable to attempt upon the Enemy, lying as he doth. 1790Cowper Odyssey xv. 615 It were a course Now not adviseable. 1851‘L. Mariotti’ Italy iii. 150 Various reasons..seemed to render advisable the abandonment of the Tyrol. |

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