Also 4–6 amonicioun, -cion; 6 ammonycyon, admonicion; 6– admonition. [a. OFr. amonition, later admonition; ad. L. admonitiōn-em, n. of action, f. admonē-re to ADMONISH.]
1. The action of admonishing; authoritative counsel; warning, implied reproof.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Boethius (1868), 13. Nedeþ it ȝitte, quod I, of rehersyng or of amonicioun.
1506. Ordin. Crysten Men (W. de Worde), IV. xxi. 281. Take payne by ammonycyon or otherwyse that restytucyon were made.
1604. Rowlands, Looke to It, 20. You that liue as you please, do what you list, and admonition vtterly resist.
1611. Bible, 1 Cor. x. 11. These things … are written for our admonition.
1757. Johnson, Rambler, No. 155. ¶ 6. Few are persuaded to quit it by admonition or reproof.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 7. Feeling bound to accept rebuke and admonition as a brotherly office.
2. An act of admonishing; a warning, reproof; an utterance or statement of grave counsel or censure, esp. of ecclesiastical censure.
1526. Tindale, Tit. iv. 10. A man that is geuen to heresie, after the fyrst and the seconde amonicion, avoyde.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. 102. Admonition is the lowest of Ecclesiasticall censures.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., By the ancient canons, nine monitories, or Admonitions, at due distance, are required before excommunication.
1843. Lytton, Last of Barons, I. iv. 57. He now called to mind the admonitions of his host.
1870. Bryant, Homer, I. VI. 184. The timely admonition changed The purpose of his brother.
