premonitor
One who, or that which, gives premonition; a harbinger
Noun
- One who, or that which, gives premonition; a harbinger
- Beloved, give me leave to be a premonitor, a forewarner to you in this place, and to tell you that these things must needs provoke God to heavy displeasure . - 1642, Thomas Cheshire, A True Copy of that Sermon which was...
- and if he is legitimately attended to, sedulously known, and religiously reverenced, in the way he was reverenced by Socrates, with justice and innocence, will be a predicter in things uncertain, a premonitor in things...
- By power of legal suasion, forbid all emanation Of brewers' fermentation, or poisonous preparation Of spirit distillation, nor any vain libation, Producing stimulation, premonitor of desolation. - 1871, John N. Stearns,...
- A forerunner; a predecessor.
- And within this erect sport-producing structure is found a columella, which may be regarded as the premonitor of a vascular system. - 1905, Annual Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society- Volume 39, page 32:
Origin
From Latin praemonitor.
Forms
Verb
- To monitor beforehand.
- 4. premonitor all eating; - 1980, Sheldon D. Rose, A Casebook in Group Therapy: A Behavioral Cognitive Approach, page 145:
- The premonitoring group recorded food, amount, time, and place of eating prior to eating. - 1984, Michael Merbaum, Michael Rosenbaum, “Self-Control Theory and Technique in the Modification of Smoking, Obesity, and...
- They are only to premonitor construction activities to be expected. - 1995, George van Leeuwen, “A Hedonic Approach to Output Price Indices for Construction”, in Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Research Conference of the...