ADMONISH, AMONISHING, ADMONITION, ADMONITORY
ADJECTIVES
► ADMONITIVE admonishing, pert. to admonition → 1677 obs.
► ADMONITORIAL admonishing, giving admonition, warning → 1848
► ADMONITORY admonishing, giving admonition, warning → 1594
► MONITIVE warning, admonitory → 1677 obs.
► MONITORIAL of a letter, etc.: warning, admonitory → 1725 obs.
► PARAENETICAL admonishing, advisory, hortatory; apt to persuade → 1598
ADVERBS
► ADMONITIVELY by admonition → 1888 (Bk.)
NOUNS
► ADVERTISEMENT admonition, warning; the act of calling the attention of others → 1475 obs.
► HARK FROM THE TOMB a severe admonition or scolding → 1960 Amer. dial.
► LESSONING admonition, instruction → 1583
► MONISHMENT admonition; warning; also, a reminder → 1483 obs.
► MONITION warning, admonition → 1438
► PI-GAS a serious admonition or talk → 1880 schools’ & universities’ usage
► PI-JAW a serious admonition or talk → 1875 schools’ & universities’ usage
► SUBMONITION a gentle admonition, suggestion, or reproving → 1562 obs.
NOUNS, PERSON
► ADMONISHIONER ► ADMONITIONER a person who admonishes → 1586 obs.
► ADMONITOR a person who admonishes → 1547
► ADMONITRIX a female who admonishes → 1850
► MONISHER a person who admonishes, warns, or exhorts → 1382 obs.
► MONITIONER a person who admonishes or warns → 1556 obs.
► MONITRESS a female admonisher, adviser, or mentor → 1748
VERBS
► ADVERTISE to admonish, to warn → 1494 obs.
► CRAWL to admonish; to rebuke or reprove severely → 1905 Amer. dial.
► GIVE DOWN THE BANKS to admonish or berate in a vehement and vociferous manner; to reprimand or scold → 1845 colloq.
► GIVE DOWN THE COUNTRY to admonish or berate in a vehement and vociferous manner; to reprimand or scold → 1892 Amer. dial.
► GIVE DOWN THE ROAD to admonish or berate in a vehement and vociferous manner; to reprimand or scold → 1974 Amer. dial.
► GIVE GYP to admonish or punish; to assault or beat → 1893 orig. Eng. dial.
► JUMP to admonish → 1915 Amer. sl., World War I Amer. sl.
► LESSON to admonish, to rebuke, to reprove to give a lesson or lessons to, to instruct → 1555
► MIND to admonish, to remind → 1789 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► MONISH to admonish; to give counsel, warning, or criticism → 1449 chiefly literary and arch. usage
► PI-JAW to admonish; to give moral advice to → 1885 schools’ & universities’ usage
► RACK to admonish → 1980 UK juvenile sl.