advisement

English

Alternative forms

• avisement

Etymology

From Middle English advisement, avisement, from Old French advisement, avisement, from adviser, aviser + -ment.

Noun

advisement (usually uncountable, plural advisements)

1. (now US) Consideration or deliberation.

   He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.

2. (archaic) Advice, counsel.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 141:

     Her wiſely comforted all, that ſhe might, / With goodly counſell and aduiſement right; […]

Derived terms

• take under advisement

Scots

Etymology

advise +‎ -ment

Noun

advisement (plural advisements)

1. advice

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.