noun
praemūnītĭo
Meaning
- a fortifying
praemūnītĭo, ōnis, f. praemunio, II. B.,
I. a fortifying or strengthening beforehand.
I. In gen., Ambros. de Isaac et Anim. 4, 37.—
II. Trop., rhet. t. t., = πρὀ παρασκευή, of an orator, who prepares the minds of his hearers for what he has further to say, a preparation, premunition:
sine ullā praemunitione orationis, Cic. de Or. 2, 75, 304; 3, 53, 204; Quint. 9, 2, 17.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
praemūnītiō ōnis, f
praemunio, a fortifying beforehand, preparation : orationis.