单词 | premonitory |
释义 | premonitoryadj.n. A. adj. Giving or conveying premonition, that is a premonition; serving to warn or notify beforehand. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [adjective] monitoryc1475 warning1552 portentous1553 forewarning1576 admonitory1577 cautionary1638 premonitory1647 precautionary1648 noutheticala1652 cautional1656 cautioning1747 monitorial1816 pre-warning1892 heads up1979 society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [adjective] > forewarning premonitory1647 premonitive1853 1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 43 In premonitory judgements, God will take good words, and sincere intents; but in peremptory, nothing but reall performances. 1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica ii. iv. 213 A Comet..following an Earthquake, though it looseth the Praemonitory part, yet it looseth not the Nature of a Sign. 1709 W. Nelson Rights Clergy Great Brit. 174 My Lord of Sarum..makes it a Doubt whether the Clergy were ever in Possession of any Right to be chosen Members of Parliament by virtue of the Præmonitory Clause in the Writ of Summons. 1797 H. Foster Coquette lxvi. 217 Is this a return for your parent's love, and assiduous care; for your friends' solicitude, and premonitory advice? 1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 279 We are warned of approaching danger by certain premonitory symptoms. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 59 Signs and silences Premonitory of earthquake. 1930 L. W. Meynell Camouflage x. 150 There had been no premonitory yapping or growling. 1951 Sci. Monthly Apr. 247/1 The 1949 eruption of Ngauruhoe began at about 2:30 on the morning of February 9, following..a premonitory earth tremor. 2003 Lancet Neurol. 4 159/2 Premonitory sensations are sensory events..that take place before a motor or phonic tic. B. n. In plural. Premonitory symptoms, warning signs. Originally: premonitory symptoms of illness. Later, more generally: premonitory events or signs. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > symptom > [noun] > premonitory symptom prodromus1678 minnings1724 prodrome1825 premonitories1832 prodroma1845 1832 W. C. Bryant Skeleton's Cave (Introd.) 13 He talked about premonitories, and made us show our tongues. 1834 Knickerbocker 4 307 The premonitories seize me before I have time to run to the doctors for relief. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. vi. 315 Beneficent intelligences who send these portents as a sort of premonitories, to warn mankind of the coming tempest. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 308 I am down myself today with all the premonitories. 2005 Computers & Geosci. 31 521/2 SeriesBuster can be used..to eliminate non-stationary events (like premonitories and aftershocks) before estimating the Gutenberg–Richter parameters [in seismic hazard calculations]. Derivatives preˈmonitorily adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [adverb] warningly1840 forewarningly1845 premonitorily1847 warningfully1922 1847 in Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Premonitorily,..by way of premonition. 1880 G. Meredith Tragic Comedians I. viii. 174 Shaking her own head premonitorily. 1917 F. L. Packard Adventures Jimmy Dale xi. 286 The words..were grimly apt and premonitorily appropriate. ‘Dicing with Death’. 2004 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) (Nexis) 11 July e4 America's tribal rage to censor and punish dissent was premonitorily abrogated by founding fathers when they fashioned the First Amendment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1647 |
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