Admonition as an authoritative oral caution guiding jurors and functioning as a judicial reprimand and light sanction. Admonition denotes an authoritative oral communication by a court or judge serving as advice, caution, or reprimand to jurors about duty, conduct and evidence admissibility, and to counsel as a cautionary reprimand; in other contexts it operates as a formal warning to an accused on discharge and as a light disciplinary sanction for minor misdemeanors, including the lightest censure in ecclesiastical law.