| 单词 | premonition | 
| 释义 | premonitionn.  An advance warning, a forewarning. Originally: the action of warning in advance; an advance notification of subsequent events. Now usually: a strong feeling that something is about to happen, especially something unpleasant; a presentiment or foreboding. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > 			[noun]		 warningOE warnishinga1400 monition?a1475 premonition1533 animadvertencec1550 preadmonition1652 animadvertisement1655 forewarning1659 premunition1693 warna1851 warnishment1894 society > communication > information > intimation or making known > 			[noun]		 > forewarn or forewarning advertisementc1475 premonition1533 forewarning1548 premonishment?1548 animadversion1567 monition1694 1533    in  J. M. Webster  & A. A. M. Duncan Regality of Dunfermline Court Bk. 		(1953)	 101  				Efter diuers and syndry premonitiones maid be hym aifoyr concerneyng the..payment of byrone malis..the said balle warnis all and syndry tenenttis [etc.]. 1545    G. Joye Expos. Daniel Argt. f. 8  				It is necessarye to note this premonicion teaching vs how we shulde knowe the chirche of God. 1577–8    in  J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 		(1878)	 1st Ser. II. 666  				Upoun sic schort and unlauchfull premonitioun. 1615    W. Smith Hector of Germany sig. C2v  				That such another dreame I had last night: And if I should be cheated of my Bride, Twere a strange premonition. 1652    M. Nedham tr.  J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 465  				Wee have thought good (by way of friendly premonition) to declare unto them all as followeth. 1749    J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 125  				This improvident father..had besides taken no sort of pains to give him even the common premonitions. 1785    T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers  ii. iii. 250  				In the premonition to the reader prefixed to the second edition of his Optics. 1819    C. Caldwell Mem. Gen. Greene in  N. Amer. Rev. 		(1820)	 Jan. 188  				Nor is it often that any well defined marks of genius in the child afford a premonition of the eminence of the man. 1839    E. Sargent Velasco  ii. ii. 41  				Why did that sickening premonition start Into my brain, and weigh on me, as if Some inner, finer sense had felt the pang Of a sharp agony which was to come. 1869    Act 32 & 33 Victoria c. 116 §7  				The lands..should be redeemable by the grantor..upon premonition of three months. 1925    Hispania 8 324  				No one understands his reason, although they all seem to have a premonition of trouble. 1946    S. T. Felstead Stars who made Halls xvi. 164  				Some premonition seemed to take hold of him, for on the succeeding Thursday he made his will. 1990    ‘A. Cross’ Players come Again 		(1992)	 ii. 74  				I left..with a terrible premonition that no call upon rationality that night or the following day could assuage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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