monitory

American  

[mon-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈmɒn ɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

1. serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.

2. giving monition.

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noun

plural

monitories

1. Also called monitory letter.  a letter, as one from a bishop, containing a monition.

monitory British  

/ ˈmɒnɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

adjective

1. warning or admonishing

   a monitory look

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noun

1. rare a letter containing a monition

Etymology

Origin of monitory

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

Example Sentences

The Monitory Proclamation of Emancipation was issued on the 22d of September.

From Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by Blaine, James Gillespie

The House Monitory woke and spoke far behind as they went to windward.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

Monitory Verses To a Young Lady, who indulged too gloomy ideas of our sublunary state.

From Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author by Hayley, William

And Lois was praying, and Rhoda with bitter tears, and the House Monitory with the ring of its bells.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

When the maidens had finished the ballads, they went on to sing the "Supplementary Record;" but the Monitory Vision Fairy, perceiving the total absence of any interest in Pao-yü, heaved a sigh.

From Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books by Joly, H. Bencraft