1. Of persons: That cannot or will not be advised; not open to advice.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., 77. Of angry persons some are … sullen, intractable, unadvisable (a disposition mixed up of pride and melancholy).
1692. Wood, Life (O.H.S.), IV. 27. I hope his lordship will admit me to his favour, and not think I am unadviseable.
1762. Wesley, Jrnl., 3 July. There were none of them headstrong or unadvisable, none that were wiser than their teachers.
1802. H. Martin, Helen of Glenross, III. 216. Till now I have ever considered you, though too unadvisable, to be a man possessed of a considerable share of talents and understanding.
1865. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XIX. viii. (1873), VIII. 265. I am Astolpho warning Roger … not to trust himself to the Enchantress Alcina; but Roger was unadvisable.
2. Of things: Inexpedient, imprudent.
1758. Lowth, Life Wm. of Wykeham, v. 155. Extreme rigour would have been unadviseable in the beginning of a new reign.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. i. Nay were resistance unadvisable, even dangerous, yet surely pause is very natural.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 619. Alcohol in the form of diluted brandy or whisky is unadvisable.
Hence Unadvisably adv.
1702. Lond. Gaz., No. 3822/2. A Soldier … firing unadvisably upon a Centinel.
1877. Ruskin, Fors Clav., lxxxi. 257. It was unadvisably allowed by me to remain in small print.
