counsel (redirected from counselling)

counsel

1. a barrister or group of barristers engaged in conducting cases in court and advising on legal matters

2. Christianity any of the counsels of perfection or evangelical counsels, namely poverty, chastity, and obedience

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Counsel

See also Guidance.

Courage (See BRAVERY.)

Achitophel

sage adviser to David; subsequently to Absalom. [O.T.: II Samuel 16:23]

Antenor

counselor; advised Priam to return Helen to Menelaus. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 23]

Areopagus

hill near the Acropolis used for Athenian council deliberations. [Gk. Hist.: Benét, 46]

Chesterfield, Lord

(1694–1773) wrote Letters to His Son to educate him in the ways of the world. [Br. Lit.: Magill III, 565]

Consus

god of councils and advice; agricultural god. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 65; Parrinder, 66]

Egeria

wife, instructress, and advisor of emperor Numa. [Rom. Myth.: Jobes, 491; Avery, 426]

Krishna

Hindu god acts as spiritual and military counselor to Arjuna and his family. [Hindu Lit.: Mahabharata]

Laurence, Friar

adviser to the lovers. [Br. Lit.: Romeo and Juliet]

Mentor

Odysseus’s adviser; entrusted with care and education of Telemachus. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey]

Nestor

a sage old counselor to the Greeks in the Trojan War. [Gk. Myth.: Iliad]

Polonius

gives Laertes rules of conduct. [Br. Drama: Shakespeare Hamlet]

Poseidon Hippios

god of counsel and councils. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 67]

Proverbs

precepts for living according to God’s law and common sense. [O.T.: Proverbs]

Way to Wealth, The

maxims intended to inculcate virtue and frugality. [Am. Lit.: Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack in Benét, 803]