1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. xlvii^v About thys tyme arose other sectes of perdycyon, as the..Premonstrates.

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 283 White Canons premonstrates.

1680 J. Phillips Dr. Oates's Narr. Vindicated 3 From this Order [sc. the Benedictines] sprang..the Cistertians and Bernardines, the Humiliates, the Praemonstrates, and several other Petty Orders.

1844 U.S. Catholic Mag. & Monthly Rev. Jan. 50/1 An abbot of the Premonstrats in the thirteenth century, while travelling to collect books, prevailed on several religious ladies of Flanders to aid him in transcribing them.

1874 C. T. Lewis Hist. Germany ii. ix. 222 The Prémonstrate order was an outgrowth of the Cistercians.

1950 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 5 Apr. 2/6 Abbott Augustine Machalka, 44, of the Premonstrate monastery in Nova Rise, and Jesuit Franktisek Silhen, 45, provisional head of the Jesuit order here, were sentenced to 25 years each.

1981 N.Y. Times 1 Nov. xx. 10/6 There was no one in charge except an aged and genial Premonstrat Father, who seemed anxious to engage in conversation.

1653 Z. Coke Art of Logick i. 10 When they are ordinative, methodical, and by conclusion, as is premonstrate.

1562 W. Fulwood Shape of ii Monsters (single sheets) Let vs be assured that thise straunge monstruous sightes doe premonstrate vnto vs that his heauy indignacion wyl shortly come vpon vs.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 104 The same coniunction againe infusing, doth out of all doubt premonstrate the second coming of the sonne of God and man in the maiestie of his glorie.

1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night F ij b Dreames..if they haue anie premonstrances in them, the preparatiue feare of that they so premonstrate..is far worse than the mischiefe itselfe by them denounced and premonstrated.

1652 G. Wharton tr. J. Rothmann Chiromancy in Wks. (1683) 550 They premonstrate Happiness to the Man in his Journeys and Messages.

1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 132 It is not the manner of Holy Scripture to premonstrate any certain periods.

1857 A. Mathews Tea-table Talk I. 251 Marks, natural or acquired, premonstrate a talent for locomotion.

1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xl. 633 Whose errors grossest ignorance seemed to show And whose misfeats all ills to premonstrate.

1948 tr. V. G. Belinsky Sel. Philos. Wks. 327 Enlightenment is spreading swiftly among the people which already possesses its own poets who premonstrate its future.