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Word Meanings - PREMONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

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  • PROPHETIC; PROPHETICAL
    Containing, or pertaining to, prophecy; foretelling events; as, prophetic writings; prophetic dreams; -- used with of before the thing foretold. And fears are oft prophetic of the event. Dryden.
  • PRIORSHIP
    The state or office of prior; priorate.
  • FOREBODINGLY
    In a foreboding manner.
  • ANTECEDENT
    1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
  • INDICATIVELY
    In an indicative manner; in a way to show or signify.
  • OMINOUS
    Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
  • THREATEN
    1. To utter threats against; to menace; to inspire with apprehension; to alarm, or attempt to alarm, as with the promise of something evil or disagreeable; to warn. Let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
  • PREFATORY
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, a preface; introductory to a book, essay, or discourse; as, prefatory remarks. That prefatory addition to the Creed. Dryden.
  • INITIATORY
    1. Suitable for an introduction or beginning; introductory; prefatory; as, an initiatory step. Bp. Hall. 2. Tending or serving to initiate; introducing by instruction, or by the use and application of symbols or ceremonies; elementary; rudimentary.
  • ORACULAR
    1. Of or pertaining to an oracle; uttering oracles; forecasting the future; as, an oracular tongue. 2. Resembling an oracle in some way, as in solemnity, wisdom, authority, obscurity, ambiguity, dogmatism. They have something venerable and oracular
  • PROPHETICALITY
    Propheticalness.
  • SIBYLLINE
    Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by sibyls; like the productions of sibyls. Sibylline books. (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have been purchased by
  • PRIORITY
    1. The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application. 2. Precedence; superior rank. Shak. Priority of debts, a superior claim to payment, or a claim to payment before others.
  • PRIORATE
    The dignity, office, or government, of a prior. T. Warton.
  • INTRODUCTORY
    Serving to introduce something else; leading to the main subject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductory proceedings; an introductory discourse.
  • PRIORESS
    A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.
  • ANTECEDENTLY
    Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
  • PREMONITORY
    Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.
  • THREATENER
    One who threatens. Shak.
  • PROPHETICALNESS
    The quality or state of being prophetical; power or capacity to foretell.
  • MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
    Having many names or terms.
  • SUBPRIOR
    The vicegerent of a prior; a claustral officer who assists the prior.
  • BINOMINOUS
    Binominal.
  • ABDOMINOUS
    Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
  • APRIORISM
    An a priori principle.

 

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