admonitory, admonishing, reproachful, reproving
(adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning
(adjective) serving to warn; “shook a monitory finger at him”; “an exemplary jail sentence”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
admonitory (comparative more admonitory, superlative most admonitory)
Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.
Source: Wiktionary
Ad*mon"i*to*ry, a. Etym: [LL. admonitorius.]
Definition: That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance.
– Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 June 2025
(verb) obtain or seek to obtain by cadging or wheedling; “he is always shnorring cigarettes from his friends”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
