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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Admonitory \Ad*mon"i*to*ry\, a. [LL. admonitorius.]
     That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an
     admonitory glance. -- {Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly},, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  admonitory
       adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
              exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {cautionary}, {exemplary},
               {monitory}, {warning(a)}]
       2: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
          [syn: {admonishing}, {reproachful}, {reproving}]

















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