Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To forewarn; caution beforehand; notify previously.
- To give warning or advice beforehand; forebode.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
warn of something in advance
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Examples
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As by this fable of the birdes neste, he pretily and aptly doth premonish that hope and confidence of thinges attempted by man, ought to be fixed and trusted in none other but in him selfe.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various
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Did it premonish the passing away of old things, and herald the birth of a new order and a new social state? or did the trouble spring from innate madness in the "younger strengths" which were trying to overthrow the world's kingdoms?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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[Birds generally act as weather-prophets.] ` ` In Australia and Samoa the kangaroo, the crow and the owl premonish their fellow clansmen of events to come.
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` ` If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you when you address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius: ---
The Waverley 1877
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` ` I would premonish you, as a friend, to trace out a sconce upon that round hill, with a good graffe, or ditch, whilk may be easily accomplished by compelling the labour of the boors in the vicinity; it being the custom of the valorous
A Legend of Montrose 1871
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'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the words of
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801
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'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius: --
Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801
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'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the words of Virgilius: --
Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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'If you have any design upon the heart of a bonny Scotch lassie, I would premonish you, when you address her, to remember and quote the words of
Waverley Walter Scott 1801
sera commented on the word premonish
"to admonish beforehand"
August 13, 2007