Verb

(advis)

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed.

The dentist advised brushing three times a day.

To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with (m) before the thing communicated.

We were advised of the risk.

The lawyer advised me to drop the case, since there was no chance of winning.

To consider, to deliberate.

* 1843 , '', book 2, ch. VIII, ''The Election

accordingly. His Majesty, advising of it for a moment, orders that Samson be brought in with the other Twelve.

(obsolete) To look at, watch; to see.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:

when that villain he auiz'd , which late / Affrighted had the fairest Florimell , / Full of fiers fury, and indignant hate, / To him he turned

Verb

(en verb)

To declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively.

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he would often assert his beliefs to us

To use or exercise and thereby prove the existence of.

to assert one's authority

Salman Rushdie has asserted his right ... to be identified as the author of this work

To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.

The quasi-judicial pre-grant process of asserting patent rights and appeals procedures during patent examination; 'to assert' patent rights means to defend or maintain patent rights.

(computer science) To make true; to make equal to 1. (rfex)