Meaning of premonish | Babel Free

Definitions

To warn of something in advance.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“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.”

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

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