(a.) That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Or Johnson, E – said, with accompanying admonitory finger-wagging and in a schoolmasterly tone by tweeters, emailers, etc up until that last, goal-scoring moment.
(2) While God's primordial warning that He will require a reckoning for the blood shed by suicide has lost nothing of its admonitory and deterrent purpose, Jewish law, as it developed in the course of time, in actual practice takes cognizance only of two kinds of suicide: One that is permissible, by reason of its motivation, and that may in given situations even be highly laudable; and one that is the outcome or symptom of mental disturbances or otherwise legally excusable.
(3) There is something admonitory about this lack of awareness – HIV infection rates are going up among young people.
(4) A Clockwork Orange was Kubrick's fourth production since settling in England in 1960 and it completed a trilogy of admonitory science-fiction movies concerning the fate of the individual in a dehumanised near-future that began with Dr Strangelove and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
(5) While Townsend has succumbed to hamstring trouble, a thoroughly frustrated Shelvey devoted the Bournemouth game to wagging admonitory fingers at underachieving team-mates signed by Graham Carr.
(6) Much as the government might, on this occasion, have relished the idea of this admonitory process being broadcast more widely, Britain still thankfully doesn't do show trials.
Premonitory
Definition:
(a.) Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clinical features of premonitory warning signs were compared with symptoms of 78 patients without a history of minor leak and clinical grade 1 (according to the criteria of Hunt & Hess) at admission.
(2) Report on a case in which a protracted foreign body in the esophagus (chicken bone) had perforated the wall in the cervical area and had led to premonitory bleeding and finally to massive hemorrhage.
(3) There was no premonitory clinical history of cerebrovascular attacks.
(4) A premonitory transient hemoptysis occurred in 4 of the 8 patients.
(5) However, a review of the prenatal histories of 33 infants showed that only a minority had premonitory features such as prolonged rupture of membranes, prolonged labour or maternal fever.
(6) The early appearance in the postoperative period, of fluid retention, azotemia, oliguria, inability to eat, and the early appearance of the symptoms of portal encephalopathy were premonitory of short-term survival.
(7) However, the period of premonitory symptoms preceding FCA was at a 5% level significantly shorter than in AMI, provided that the unstable angina was the first symptom of IHD.
(8) In 5 out of 10 dogs verapamil (5 to 10 mg) delivered into the septal artery caused an abrupt onset of ventricular fibrillation without premonitory dysrhythmias.
(9) The duration of the pre-clinical and clinical phases together ranged from 5.5 to greater than 55 h. The duration of the clinical phase alone ranged from 1.25 to greater than 24 h, except for a minority of mice in which death occurred suddenly from apparent heart failure with no premonitory signs 4.75-31 h after dosing.
(10) Primary ventricular fibrillation especially occurs during the first hours after acute myocardial infarction and is often not preceded by premonitory ventricular premature beats.
(11) Of these 22, 13 (57%) found the premonitory urges more bothersome than the tics themselves, and 12 (55%) thought the premonitory urges enhanced their ability to suppress tics.
(12) Disinhibition-complex behaviors the subject knows are dangerous or inappropriate but feels incapable of refraining from--was found in 10 (36%) of the 28 subjects and occurred only in subjects experiencing premonitory urges.
(13) There were premonitory symptoms suggesting cerebral ischemia.
(14) A "premonitory hematemesis" of bright red blood had occurred eight hours before admission.
(15) Oral candidiasis is one of the earliest premonitory signs of HIV infection and may present as erythematous, pseudomembranous, hyperplastic, or papillary variants, or as angular cheilitis.
(16) In many cases, jaundice was the premonitory symptom of pancreatic cancer.
(17) Seventy-one percent of the runners with coronary artery disease had premonitory symptoms, and most ignored such symptoms and continued to train or race.
(18) Ventricular bigeminy is a premonitory sign of TP in patients using class 1A antiarrhythmic drugs.
(19) Splenectomized patients must be informed of the possibility of a serious, potentially fatal infection and its premonitory symptoms.
(20) It is therefore suggested that the premonitory and precipitating features are more specific in the diagnosis of convulsive syncope.