counselled

VERB

give advice

Synonyms

STRONG

admonish advise advocate caution charge confab direct enjoin exhort guide huddle inform instruct kibitz order prescribe prompt recommend reprehend steer suggest teach tip tout urge warn

WEAK

give pointer give two cents keep posted put bug in ear put heads together put on to show the ropes tip off wise one up

Antonyms

STRONG

approve conceal discourage dissuade hide learn misguide mislead neglect prevent

Example Sentences

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Counselled by him he gained the sword And bow of Indra, heavenly lord: A pair of quivers too, that bore Of arrows an exhaustless store.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

I take it here in the first sense onely: And in this sense, there is no choyce of Counsell, neither in a Democracy, nor Aristocracy; because the persons Counselling are members of the person Counselled.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Age that had begun to quail In the gathering gloom, Counselled he to seek the Grail And forget the tomb.

From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by MacDonald, George

Counselled by them, he took to the ploughed field, where his pursuers were unable to follow him, and so escaped.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Hartland, Edwin Sidney

Counselled by him, Colonel Miranda has refrained from communicating it.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne