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Wele avisit, Weill avysit, p.p. and ppl. adj. Also: weill a(d)wysit, -advysit, weile avysit, veil avyssit, waill awisit. [ME wel(l) auysed (both Chaucer), wele auysed (c1400), well advised (c1450); Avisit p.p. and ppl. adj.] Prudent, careful, cautious. 1456 Hay I 115/21 (see Avisit p.p. and ppl. adj.).
Wele avisit 1456 Hay I 266/26.
All princis … suld be wele avisit and wele counsailit c1500 Fyve Bestes 358.
Richt sad of langage suld he be ane kyng And weile avysit or he said the thing c1500-c1512 Dunb. (OUP) 38/2.
Be ȝe ane luvar think ȝe nocht ȝe suld Be weill advysit [STS weill adwysit] in ȝour governing? 1524 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 72.
Andro Ker [etc.] … with avys of haill communite, hes chossin thir agit veil avyssit men to rid the boundis 1536 Selkirk B. Ct. (ed.) 168.
Aigit veilavyssit burgessis 1553 Prot. Bk. R. Lumsdane 14b.
With avis consall and iugment of certane thair waill awisit freindis 1567 G. Ball. 237 (see Avisit p.p. and ppl. adj.).
Weill auysit 1580 Rec. Earld. Orkney 355 (see Avisit p.p. and ppl. adj.).
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