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amonester (s.xii1/3)
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amonester (s.xii1/3)

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amonestier,  amonestrer;  amoneiter;  emonester  
  FEW:  *admonestare 24,169b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  amonester 8,109c TL: amonester 1,359 DEAF:  amonester  DMF:  admonester  TLF:  admonester  OED:  admonish v.  MED:  amonesten v.  DMLBS: ∅

v.trans.

1to admonish, exhort: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  Li abés dunc les amonestet, Que curages unc ne cesset  S Brend mup 223
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Dunc veissez chevaliers puindre [...] E les Bretuns amonester  Brut WACE 4970
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Mult vus devreie sermuner E de ben feire amonester  S Gile1 3538
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiiim )  coment nus pust il deveer ço k’il meymes nus amoneste de prier?  Mirour Egl 84.52
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1 )  te voloms prier Et […] amonester Tun errour retrere  LANGTOFT thiol2 467.208
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  seint Poel […] nus amoneste touz communement a confession  Ancren2 54.5
2to direct, instruct: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  un soil […] en le quel il (=defendant) trova mesmes ces avers […] dunt il ly (=plaintiff) avoit sovent amonesté qe il les ostast  BRITT i 152
( 1373 )  amonesterent le chapitre de Beverlé sur peyn d’escumengement […] de receyvre les ditz T. […] et T. […] come procuratours  King’s Bench vi 171
3to warn against, dissuade: 
( MS: s.xiii2 )  desuasor: amoneyter  TLL ii 7
4to demand: 
( s.xiiiex; MS: c.1300? )  Heruuard lur amonestout: ‘Quei gisum [nus] ici?’  Burch1 412

v. absol.

to admonish, exhort: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Tant ad la dame amonesté E tant ad sun seinnur hasté  Brut WACE 1885

p.pr. as a.

of good counsel: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiii2 )  Ki ceste piere (=agate) portera […] Ben ert parlables e puissant, Aceptables, amonestant, Vertuus et ben colorez  Lapid 206.58

p.pr. as s.

one who exhorts: 
( MS: s.xiii1 )  ortatorios: amonestanz  TLL ii 97

sbst. inf.

exhortation: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Henguist laissa l'amonester  Brut WACE 7703
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  par ses pramesses, par sun amonester  Horn 3713

See also:

ramonester 
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