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admonished
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Admonish \Ad*mon"ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admonished; p. pr. & vb. n. Admonishing.] [OE. amonesten, OF. amonester, F. admonester, fr. a supposed LL. admonesstrare, fr. L. admonere to remind, warn; ad + monere to warn. See Monition.]
To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. ``Admonish him as a brother.''
--2 Thess. iii. 15.-
To counsel against wrong practices; to cation or advise; to warn against danger or an offense; -- followed by of, against, or a subordinate clause.
Admonishing one another in psalms and hymns.
--Col. iii. 16.I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy.
--Milton. -
To instruct or direct; to inform; to notify.
Moses was admonished of God, when he was about to make the tabernacle.
--Heb. viii. 5.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: admonish)
WordNet
adj. punished especially by reproof or reprimand [syn: chastened, rebuked, reprimanded, reproved]
Usage examples of "admonished".
When the return of famine severely admonished them of the importance of the arts, the national distress was sometimes alleviated by the emigration of a third, perhaps, or a fourth part of their youth.
The sight of his head, when it was exposed to the eyes of the people, convinced them of their deliverance, and admonished them to receive with acclamations of loyalty and gratitude the fortunate Constantine, who thus achieved by his valor and ability the most splendid enterprise of his life.
Barbarian chiefs, alarmed and admonished by the fate of their companions, prepared to encounter, in a decisive battle, the victorious forces of the lieutenant of Valentinian.
When Attila declared his resolution of carrying his victorious arms to the gates of Rome, he was admonished by his friends, as well as by his enemies, that Alaric had not long survived the conquest of the eternal city.
A long siege and an artful negotiation, admonished the king of the Franks of the danger and difficulty of his enterprise.
A similar instance, in Grecian history, admonished the emperor of the honorable part prescribed for his imitation.
Notwithstanding these precautions, and his own example, the succession of consuls finally ceased in the thirteenth year of Justinian, whose despotic temper might be gratified by the silent extinction of a title which admonished the Romans of their ancient freedom.
Adrumetum in ashes, he calmly admonished the emperor that the peace of Africa might be secured by the recall of Solomon and his unworthy nephews.
In this state of disgrace and agony, two bishops, Isaiah of Rhodes and Alexander of Diospolis, were dragged through the streets of Constantinople, while their brethren were admonished, by the voice of a crier, to observe this awful lesson, and not to pollute the sanctity of their character.
Without depending on prayers or miracles, he boldly armed against the public enemy, and his pastoral letters admonished the Italians of their danger and their duty.
He disdained to compel their service: but on his return he admonished the most guilty, by an excommunication of fifty days.
Abu Obeidah admonished his brethren not to despise the baser origin of Dames, since he himself, could he relinquish the public care, would cheerfully serve under the banner of the slave.
Edeco, who had been commanded to seize and bind the presumptuous strangers, admonished Roderic of the magnitude of the danger.
The ambassadors of the nations, more especially of the unbelieving nations, were solemnly admonished, that such strange alliances had been condemned by the founder of the church and city.
At the same time, the Russian prince admonished his Byzantine ally to disperse and employ, to recompense and restrain, these impetuous children of the North.