premonish
Americanverb (used with or without object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- unpremonished adjective
Etymology
Origin of premonish
First recorded in 1520–30; pre- + (ad)monish
Example Sentences
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Premonish, prē-mon′ish, v.t. to admonish or warn beforehand.—n.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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?
From Project Gutenberg
I premonish you of that: in the court, boy, lacquey, or sirrah.
From Project Gutenberg
Thou stop'st Saint Peter in the midst of sin; Stay me, by crowing, ere I do begin; Better it is, premonish'd, for to shun A sin, than fall to weeping when 'tis done.
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