premonish

present singular third person premonishes · participle present premonishing · participle past premonished · past premonished

1. obsoletetransitiveTo warn of something in advance.

   In Australia and Samoa the kangaroo, the crow and the owl premonish their fellow clansmen of events to come.

   1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., page 56

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   While other schools of a similar nature were petitioning for endowments, employing agents to solicit funds, and, failing to receive, were obliged to close their doors, she, […] premonished on every side with assurances of failure, not only established a good school, but maintained it, and made it a remunerative enterprise and a recognized force in educational circles.

   1901, Winona Branch Sawyer, Frances Wood Shimer, 1826-1901, page 17