It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Math.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

We may give advice, but we can not give conduct. Franklin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How shall I dote on her with more advice,
That thus without advice begin to love her? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; -- used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice. McElrath. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Crim. Law) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advice boat, a vessel employed to carry dispatches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. --
To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Counsel; suggestion; recommendation; admonition; exhortation; information; notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready to receive advice. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give information or notice to; to inform; -- with of before the thing communicated; as, we were advised of the risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

To advise one's self, to bethink one's self; to take counsel with one's self; to reflect; to consider. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bid thy master well advise himself. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To counsel; admonish; apprise; acquaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

Advise if this be worth attempting. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having received information; as, be kept advised. uninformed [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. “Advisedly undertaken.” Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Counsel; advice; information. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Consideration; deliberation; consultation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is always made ex parte, and without cross-examination, and in this differs from a deposition. It is also applied to written statements made on affirmation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Deposition. See Deposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Should no others join capable to alleviate the expense. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those large bladders . . . conduce much to the alleviating of the body [ of flying birds ]. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. [ 1913 Webster ]

The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To extenuate; to palliate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He alleviates his fault by an excuse. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To lessen; diminish; soften; mitigate; assuage; abate; relieve; nullify; allay. -- To Alleviate, Mitigate, Assuage, Allay. These words have in common the idea of relief from some painful state; and being all figurative, they differ in their application, according to the image under which this idea is presented. Alleviate supposes a load which is lightened or taken off; as, to alleviate one's cares. Mitigate supposes something fierce which is made mild; as, to mitigate one's anguish. Assuage supposes something violent which is quieted; as, to assuage one's sorrow. Allay supposes something previously excited, but now brought down; as, to allay one's suffering or one's thirst. To alleviate the distresses of life; to mitigate the fierceness of passion or the violence of grief; to assuage angry feeling; to allay wounded sensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]