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Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

To fortify beforehand; to guard against objection. [Obs.] Fotherby.

The act of fortifying or guarding against objections. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to a premunire; as, a premunitory process.

Of or pertaining to primogeniture. [R.]

The first ancestor; a forefather.

d in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue. Blackstone.

The state or privileges of the firstborn. Burke.

That which is profane; profane language or acts. The brisk interchange of profanity and folly. Buckminster.

An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather. And reverence thee their great progenitor. Milton.

The state of being a progenitor.

A female progenitor.

A begetting, or birth. [R.]

Proneness; propensity. [R.] Dr. H. More.

One of the primary, or first-formed, segments of an embryonic arthropod.

Punishment. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

Of or pertaining to punishment; involving, awarding, or inflicting punishment; as, punitive law or justice. If death be punitive, so, likewise, is the necessity imposed upon man of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.

Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive. God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. A. Tucker.

A massive subcolumnar variety of topaz.

acetate produced by treating pyroligneous acid with a metal or basic compound; as, pyrolignite of iron (iron liquor).