Word: admonish
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Council then gave its informal approval to an executive board decision to eliminate its usual meeting to admonish library offenders. Letters will hereafter be sent to those who infringe library rules warning then that they must perform special duties at the library and telling them the hours they must work...
...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...
...means the resounding triumph that the canny, colorless Prime Minister had achieved in 1940, when his Liberal Party won 178 of the 245 House of Commons seats. The electorate, while approving King for a sixth term, took the opportunity to admonish him at the same time. He won a clear, overall majority, but it was by a thin margin. For that margin of victory he had old stand-by Quebec to thank. That French Canadian province, the Liberal Party's counterpart of the U.S. Democratic Party's "solid south," handed him most of its 65 seats...
Uncle Tim got a letter from a village in the interior, asking that Uncle Tim admonish little José García for always picking his nose, putting the pickies on the furniture and upsetting his mamacita and papacito. "José," wheedled Uncle Tim on the radio, "that is a terrible habit. People won't like you if you keep...
American Legion Commander Milo J. Warner: "We [admonish] . . . textbook authors not to regard it as their province to use the schoolroom as a sounding board whereon the glories of the collectivist society shall be preached...