ecclesiastical affairs, a part of discipline much used in the ancient church. It was the first act, or step, towards the punishment or expulsion of delinquents. In case of private offences, it was performed according to the evangelical rules, privately; in case of public offence, openly, before the church. If either of those sufficed for the recovery of the fallen person, all further proceedings in the way of censure ceased; if they did not, recourse was had to excommunication.

Admonition Fustium, among the Romans, a military punishment, not unlike our whipping, only it was performed with vine-branches.

Admortalization, in the feudal customs, the reduction of the property of lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.