Word Meanings - ADMONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
Related words: (words related to ADMONITORY)
- REPROVE
1. To convince. When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. John xvi. 9. 2. To disprove; to refute. Reprove my allegation, if you can. Shak. 3. To chide to the face as blameworthy; to accuse as guilty; - GLANCE
A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. - WARNSTORE
To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer. - REPROVABLE
Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Blamable; blameworthy; censurable; reprehensible; culpable; rebukable. --Re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Re*prov"a*bly, adv. - REPROVER
One who, or that which, reproves. - ADMONITORY
That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv. - WARN
To refuse. Chaucer. - ADMONITION
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object - REPROVAL
Reproof. Sir P. Sidney. - WARNINGLY
In a warning manner. - WARNING
Giving previous notice; cautioning; admonishing; as, a warning voice. That warning timepiece never ceased. Longfellow. Warning piece, Warning wheel , a piece or wheel which produces a sound shortly before the clock strikes. - WARNER
One who warns; an admonisher. - REPROVINGLY
In a reproving manner. - ADMONITIONER
Admonisher. - FOREWARN
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak. - EYEGLANCE
A glance of eye. - IRREPROVABLE
Incapable of being justly reproved; irreproachable; blameless; upright. -- Ir`re*prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*prov"a*bly, adv. - SELF-REPROVINGLY
In a self-reproving way. - SELF-REPROVING
Reproving one's self; reproving by consciousness of guilt. - OVERGLANCE
To glance over. - DISWARN
To dissuade from by previous warning. - SELF-REPROVED
Reproved by one's own conscience or one's own sense of guilt. - UNREPROVED
1. Not reproved. Sandys. 2. Not having incurred reproof, blameless. In unreproved pleasures free. Milton. - AWARN
To warn. Spenser. - PREADMONITION
Previous warning or admonition; forewarning.