premonitorn.

Brit.

/prᵻˈmɒnᵻtə/, U.S.

/priˈmɑnədər/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praemonitor.

Etymology: < classical Latin praemonitor person who warns in advance (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius) < praemonit- , past participial stem of praemonēre to forewarn, foretell (see premonish v.) + -or -or suffix.

A person who or thing which forewarns; (a bringer of) a premonitory sign or token.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > one who

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1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlix. 145 But surely in reason, and Nature, the end cannot be mightily distant... Nay, wee haue seene it well stept into yeeres, and declination, the most infalible premonitors of a dissolution.

1651 Bp. J. Hall Susurrium cum Deo lxxix. 294 Some such like uncouth premonitors; which the great and holy God sends purposely to awaken our Security.

1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air I. p. xii Nor should he pay the Infidel the Compliment of ridiculing and contemning some special Premonitors of divine Displeasure.

1800 S. Brown Treat. Yellow Fever 14 The ague and rigors were generally the premonitors of the disease.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 245 Of these the Clouds are eminent premonitors.

1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 464 Premonitors of crime.

1885 E. Bulwer-Lytton Glenaveril I. i. 25 No grim Glenaveril ghost, premonitor Of coming griefs, had warned his heart of what This letter told.

1948 Times 29 July 3/4 The quarrel between the Cominform and Marshal Tito, of which these hesitations are now seen to have been the premonitors.

1980 Nature 17 Jan. 263/2 The numbers of false alarms and failures-to-predict..increased when we considered as a premonitor any earthquake with magnitude up to M_D.

1994 Independent (Nexis) 18 Nov. 26 Their [sc. the Eagles'] transition from peaceful, easy-feelin' California cowpokes to rather more sinister premonitors of Eighties' Yuppie oligarchism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	premonitor
释义	premonitorn. Brit. /prᵻˈmɒnᵻtə/, U.S. /priˈmɑnədər/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praemonitor. Etymology: < classical Latin praemonitor person who warns in advance (2nd cent. a.d. in Apuleius) < praemonit- , past participial stem of praemonēre to forewarn, foretell (see premonish v.) + -or -or suffix. A person who or thing which forewarns; (a bringer of) a premonitory sign or token. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > one who forewarnerc1425 warner1565 premonitor1628 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xlix. 145 But surely in reason, and Nature, the end cannot be mightily distant... Nay, wee haue seene it well stept into yeeres, and declination, the most infalible premonitors of a dissolution. 1651 Bp. J. Hall Susurrium cum Deo lxxix. 294 Some such like uncouth premonitors; which the great and holy God sends purposely to awaken our Security. 1749 T. Short Gen. Chronol. Hist. Air I. p. xii Nor should he pay the Infidel the Compliment of ridiculing and contemning some special Premonitors of divine Displeasure. 1800 S. Brown Treat. Yellow Fever 14 The ague and rigors were generally the premonitors of the disease. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 245 Of these the Clouds are eminent premonitors. 1866 J. B. Rose tr. Ovid Metamorphoses 464 Premonitors of crime. 1885 E. Bulwer-Lytton Glenaveril I. i. 25 No grim Glenaveril ghost, premonitor Of coming griefs, had warned his heart of what This letter told. 1948 Times 29 July 3/4 The quarrel between the Cominform and Marshal Tito, of which these hesitations are now seen to have been the premonitors. 1980 Nature 17 Jan. 263/2 The numbers of false alarms and failures-to-predict..increased when we considered as a premonitor any earthquake with magnitude up to M_D. 1994 Independent (Nexis) 18 Nov. 26 Their [sc. the Eagles'] transition from peaceful, easy-feelin' California cowpokes to rather more sinister premonitors of Eighties' Yuppie oligarchism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1628
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