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動詞

premonish (三人称単数 現在形 premonishes, 現在分詞 premonishing, 過去形および過去分詞形 premonished)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To warn of something in advance.
   • 1901, Winona Branch Sawyer, Frances Wood Shimer, 1826-1901, page 17:

     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.

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

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

関連する語

• premonition

アナグラム

• morphines, permonish