admovet (admov)

t. [Earlier amove (see amovel), communication. =Syn. Admonition, Reprehension, Re proof, Monition, Censure, Reproach, Rebuke, Reprimand, remonstrance, expostulation, warning, suggestion, hint, intimation. In the primary and almost invariable sense, admonition, reprehension, and reproof are bestowed upon conduct which is morally defective. Censure and repre hension may or may not be addre ed directly to the per son blamed; the utterances expre ed by the other words are always so addre ed. Admonition is caution or warning with reference to future conduct; it is often based upon past failures: as, admonition not to repeat a fault. It is often an official act, as of the authorities of a church, school, or college. Monition is a softer word, and is mostly confined to subjective promptings or warnings: as, the monitions of conscience or of reason. The other words are wholly retrospective. Reprehension may be the mildest of them, or may be strengthened by an adjective: as, the severest reprehension. It is unofficial, and may denote the act of an equal. Reproof is the act of a superior or elder, an authoritative and personal censure. Censure is unfavorable judgment, generally severe, po ibly official. Reproach is censure with opprobrium; it is used chiefly as a relief to excited feelings, and is intended to humiliate rather than correct. Rebuke is energetic and summary, like stopping one's mouth; it implies feeling, like reproach, but more self-control. Reprimand is the act of a superior, is severe, and is often official and public as a form of penalty: as, sentenced to receive a reprimand from his commanding officer in the presence of the regiment. (See the discrimination of corresponding verbs under censure, v.) A man that is an heretic, after the first and second ad monition, reject. Tit. iii. 10. The admonitions , fraternal or parental, of his fellow Christians, or the governors of the church, then more pub Hammond . lic reprehensions. Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. Pope, E ay on Criticism, 1. 583. Divine in on it i on Nature yields, That not by bread alone we live. Words worth, Devotional Incitements. The pain of a little censure , even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 440. Dread of reproach, both by checking cowardice in battle and by restraining misbehaviour in social life, has tended to public and private advantage. H. Spencer , Prin. of Psychol., § 526. My caution was more pertinent Than the rebuke you give it. Shak., Cor., ii. 2. IMG:content-0279.png:[blocks in formation] I warn'd thee, I admonish'd thee, foretold The danger and the lurking enemy. Me fruitful scenes and prospects waste Alike admonish not to roam. 3. To instruct or direct; guide. Ye choice spirits that admonish me. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle. Heb. viii. 5. IMG:content-0280.png:[blocks in formation]