Counsel vs False - What's the difference?
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The exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.
* Bible, Matthew xxvii. 1
Exercise of judgment; prudence.
* Hooker
Advice; guidance.
* Shakespeare
* Tennyson
Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan.
* Bible, Psalms xxxiii. 11
* Bible, Proverbs xii. 5
(obsolete) A secret opinion or purpose; a private matter.
* Gower
A lawyer, as in Queen's Counsel (QC).
To give advice, especially professional advice.
To recommend
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun counsel
is the exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.As a verb counsel
is to give advice, especially professional advice.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.counsel
English
Noun
(en noun)- All the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death.
- They all confess, therefore, in the working of that first cause, that counsel is used.
- I like thy counsel ; well hast thou advised.
- It was ill counsel had misled the girl.
- The counsel of the Lord standeth forever.
- The counsels of the wicked are deceit.
- thilke lord to whom no counsel may be hid
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- The lawyer counselled his client to remain silent.
- Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health professionals counsel clients.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* keep one's counsel * keep one's own counselSee also
* councilAnagrams
*false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}