Inform vs Counsel - What's the difference?
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(archaic) To instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge).
To communicate knowledge to.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
To impart information or knowledge.
To act as an informer; denounce.
To give form or character to; to inspire (with a given quality); to affect, influence (with a pervading principle, idea etc.).
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* Prior
(obsolete) To make known, wisely and/or knowledgeably.
(obsolete) To direct, guide.
(archaic) To take form; to become visible or manifest; to appear.
* Shakespeare
Without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.
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
Inform is a related term of counsel.
As verbs the difference between inform and counsel
is that inform is (archaic|transitive) to instruct, train (usually in matters of knowledge) while counsel is to give advice, especially professional advice.As an adjective inform
is without regular form; shapeless; ugly; deformed.As a noun counsel is
the exchange of opinions and advice; consultation.inform
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) informen, enformen, from (etyl) enformer, .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- For he would learn their business secretly, / And then inform his master hastily.
- I am informed thoroughly of the cause.
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- Let others better mould the running mass / Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
- Breath informs this fleeting frame.
- It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes.
Synonyms
* acquaint, apprise, notify * (act as informer) dob, name names, peach, snitchDerived terms
* informant * information * informative * informatory * informed * informer * misinform * uninformedEtymology 2
(etyl) (lena) informisAdjective
(-)- (Cotton)
Anagrams
*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.