monition

[ muh-nish-uh n, moh- ]

/ məˈnɪʃ ən, moʊ- /

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noun

Literary. admonition or warning.

an official or legal notice.

Law. a court order to a person, especially one requiring an appearance and answer.Compare subpoena.

a formal notice from a bishop requiring the amendment of an ecclesiastical offense.

Nearby words

moniliid, monish, monism, monistic, moniter, monition, monitor, monitor versus merrimack, monitorial, monitory, monitress

Origin of monition

1350–1400; Middle English monicio(u)n < Latin monitiōn- (stem of monitiō) warning, equivalent to monit(us) (past participle of monēre to advise, warn) + -iōn- -ion

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Examples from the Web for monition

Laying this monition to heart, I decided to trust her for a big stake, but waiting, alas!
London in the Sixties|One of the Old Brigade
Their approach was noiseless as thought,—but the king, on a sudden, felt a monition of their coming.
The Kindred of the Wild|Charles G. D. Roberts
Their own wild heart and what faith it has will guide them: and is not that the monition of some genius, better or worse?
The French Revolution|Thomas Carlyle
Each thinks that he has received some monition of the fall; each asserting that he heard no noise whatever to warn him.
Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death|Frederick W. H. Myers

Whichever way he turned there was some monition of its presence.
The Truth About Tristrem Varick|Edgar Saltus

British Dictionary definitions for monition

monition

/ (məʊˈnɪʃən) /

noun

a warning or caution; admonition

Christianity a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court requiring a person to refrain from committing a specific offence

Word Origin for monition

C14: via Old French from Latin monitiō, from monēre to warn

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