premonish
verb1
Obsolete To warn of something in advance.
- 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:
- 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:
- Derived terms
- premonishment, unpremonished
- Related terms
- premonition