monitory

[ mon-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

1. serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
2. giving monition.

noun

, plural mon·i·to·ries.

1. Also called monitory letter. a letter, as one from a bishop, containing a monition.

monitory

/ -trɪ; ˈmɒnɪtərɪ /

adjective

1. warning or admonishing

   a monitory look

noun

1. rare.
   a letter containing a monition

Word History and Origins

Origin of monitory¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin monitōrius reminding, warning, equivalent to moni- ( monitor ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

Example Sentences

When he found that his monitory coughs and looks produced no effect on his niece, he warned his sister-in-law.

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He walked close to Mayo and shook a monitory finger under the young man's nose.

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We have an obscure remembrance that the Queen's speech uttered a voice on this point—a solemn, a monitory, a parental voice.

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The face of this monitory Hebe haunted me for some years in a way that I must faintly attempt to explain.

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Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.

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