advisory

advisory
    adj 1: giving advice; "an advisory memorandum", "his function
           was purely consultative" [syn: {advisory},
           {consultative}, {consultatory}, {consultive}]
    n 1: an announcement that usually advises or warns the public of
         some threat; "a frost advisory"
    

Advisory \Ad*vi"so*ry\, a.
   Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory
   council; their opinion is merely advisory.
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         The General Association has a general advisory
         superintendence over all the ministers and churches.
                                                  --Trumbull.
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38 Moby Thesaurus words for "advisory":
      admonition, admonitory, bulletin, cautionary, communicative,
      consultative, consultatory, council, deliberative, didactic,
      directive, educational, educative, enlightening, exhortative,
      exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory, hortative, hortatory,
      informational, informative, informing, instructive, monitorial,
      monitory, moralistic, notice, preachy, prediction, recommendatory,
      remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious, synodal,
      synodic, warning