Word Meanings - DISWARN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To dissuade from by previous warning.
Related words: (words related to DISWARN)
- PREVIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time. - WARNSTORE
To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer. - PREVIOUSLY
Beforehand; antecedently; as, a plan previously formed. - DISSUADER
One who dissuades; a dehorter. - WARN
To refuse. Chaucer. - DISSUADE
1. To advise or exhort against; to try to persuade (one from a course). Mr. Burchell, on the contrary, dissuaded her with great ardor: and I stood neuter. Goldsmith. War, therefore, open or concealed, alike My voice dissuades. Milton. 2. To divert - 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. - PREVIOUS
Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound . . . previous to the storm, Rolls o'er the muttering earth. Thomson. Previous question. See under - FOREWARN
To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak. - DISWARN
To dissuade from by previous warning. - AWARN
To warn. Spenser. - PREWARN
To warn beforehand; to forewarn.