Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COUN'SEL, v.t. [L. consilior.]

1. To give advice or deliberate opinion to another for the government of his conduct; to advise. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire. – Rev. iii.
2. To exhort, warn, admonish, or instruct. We ought frequently to counsel our children against the vices of the age. They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. – Franklin.
3. To advise or recommend; as, to counsel a crime. [Not much used.] – Dryden.