premonish

[pri-mon-ish]

verb (used with or without object)

1. to warn beforehand.

premonish

/ prɪˈmɒnɪʃ /

verb

1. rare,  (tr) to admonish beforehand; forewarn

Other Word Forms

• unpremonished adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of premonish¹

First recorded in 1520–30; pre- + (ad)monish

Example Sentences

Premonish, prē-mon′ish, v.t. to admonish or warn beforehand.—n.

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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.

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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?

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I premonish you of that: in the court, boy, lacquey, or sirrah.

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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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Related Words

• augur 
• bespeak 
• foretell 
• predict 
• presage