submonish

English

Etymology

From Latin submonere, equivalent to summon +‎ -ish.

Verb

submonish (third-person singular simple present submonishes, present participle submonishing, simple past and past participle submonished)

1. (rare) To suggest; to prompt.
   • 1621, Thomas Granger, A Familiar Exposition or Commentarie on Ecclesiastes:

     the submonishing inclinations of my senses

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “submonish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)