1 to warn someone not to do something, usually in a kind way, or to tell someone to do something: --
One person was admonished and seven were fined an average of £28·50 ; three people were fined an average of £65 for a second or subsequent offence.
I was suitably admonished for skipping rugby practice.
A woman police sergeant has also been admonished for a remark to which objection could properly be taken.
After about his fifth cheap double, my friend was generally admonished by others there about the merit of continued expenditure.
He imposed a modified fine of £3, did not order the forfeiture of the gear, and admonished them for fishing without lights.
Seventy-one of the men concerned were admonished and the remainder received punishments ranging from three days' confinement to barracks to 28 days' detention.
He admonished us that if we rejected this offer of reform we should only have ourselves to thank if we regretted it in the future.
He admonished us in all things to walk modestly before all men.
