monish
English
    
    Etymology
    
From Old English monesten. See admonish, monition.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈmɒnɪʃ/
Verb
    
monish (third-person singular simple present monishes, present participle monishing, simple past and past participle monished)
- (archaic) To admonish; to warn.
- a. 1569 (date written), Roger Ascham, edited by Margaret Ascham, The Scholemaster: Or Plaine and Perfite Way of Teaching Children, to Vnderstand, Write, and Speake, the Latin Tong, […], London: […] John Daye, […], published 1570, →OCLC:- monish him gently
 
 
References
    
- “monish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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