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Definition :

Admonition, a judicial or ecclesiastic censure or reprimand. See MONITION.

Admonition, means a mild rebuke, Webster Law Dictionary, p. 19.

Means a reprimand to an accused person about to be discharged, A Dictionary of Law - William C. Anderson, 1889, p. 36.

Means a punishment administered by the Presiding Officer of a legislature to an offender for breach of privilege or contempt of the House in case of an offence which is not so grave as to warrant his committal; Parliamentary Practice - Erskine May, 22nd Edn. p. 138.

In the House of Commons, (U.K.), when a person who is not a member is directed to be admonished, the offender, if he is in attendance, is brought to the bar of the House and reprimanded by the Speaker, if not in attendance, he is brought to the bar the following or some later day and admonished. Practice and Procedure of Parliament - M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 261.

In the Lok Sabha, as well as in Rajya Sabha, as in the House of Commons, an offender whose offence is not so serious as to warrant his imprisonment, is summoned to the bar of the House and admonished by the Speaker by the order of the House. Practice and Procedure of Parliament - M.N. Kaul & S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., p. 139, 261.