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单词 premonitory
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premonitoryadj.n.

Brit. /prᵻˈmɒnᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /priˈmɑnəˌtɔri/
Forms: 1600s– premonitory, 1600s–1700s praemonitory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praemonitorius.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin praemonitorius serving to warn in advance (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < classical Latin praemonit- , past participial stem of praemonēre to forewarn, foretell (see premonish v.) + -ōrius -ory suffix2. Compare Italian premonitore serving to warn or notify in advance (1476).With use as noun compare earlier premonitor 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).
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