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)

(now US) Consideration or deliberation.
He took the situation under advisement, but was able to draw no conclusion.
(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)

advice

References

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

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