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English

Adjective

premonitory (not comparable)

• Serving as a warning or premonition.
  • ✤ […] the captain was plainly too much for the branch, which was drooping toward the water, and emitting sounds premonitory of a smash.¹
  • ✤ Many conditions formerly thought to be purely functional are now known as premonitory evidences of organic disease, and the prognosis must be guarded accordingly.²

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin praemonitōrius.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /pɹəˈmɑnɪˌtɔɹi/
• (UK) IPA: /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtəɹi/, /pɹɪˈmɒnɪtɹi/
• Audio (Southern England): 🔊

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Footnotes

1. 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard: ↩

2. 1928 December 15, Frank J. Hirschboeck, “Treatment of Functional Heart Disease”, in The Journal of the American Medical Association ‎${}^{[1]}$, volume 91, number 24, →DOI, page 1856: ↩