monitory

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

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adjective

serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.

giving monition.

noun, plural mon·i·to·ries.

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

Origin of monitory

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin monitōrius reminding, warning, equivalent to moni- (see monitor) + -tōrius -tory¹

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Related Words for monitory

admonishing, admonitory, advisory, warning, wise

Examples from the Web for monitory

Historical Examples of monitory

The rattlesnake hushed his monitory signal as he approached her.
Peter Parley's Own Story
Samuel G. Goodrich
To them, and to my countrymen at large, I offer this farewell, and this monitory counsel.
Spencer's Letters
Orson Spencer
It will be well for the rulers of Europe to heed its monitory voice.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852
Various
The tone in which these words were spoken was gentle rather than monitory.
Mated from the Morgue
John Augustus O'Shea
Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.
Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson

British Dictionary definitions for monitory

monitory

adjective Also: monitorial

warning or admonishinga monitory look

noun plural -ries

rare a letter containing a monition

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Word Origin and History for monitory

adj.

late 15c., from Latin monitorius "admonishing," from monitus, past participle of monere (see monitor (n.)).