[ədˈmɒnɪʃ], (Verb)

Definitions:
- warn or reprimand someone firmly
(e.g: she admonished me for appearing at breakfast unshaven)


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English amonest ‘urge, exhort’, from Old French amonester, based on Latin admonere ‘urge by warning’. Later, the final -t of amonest was taken to indicate the past tense, and the present tense changed on the pattern of verbs such as abolish; the prefix became ad- in the 16th century by association with the Latin form