Monitory

4 definitions found

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

  Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. monitorius.]
     Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory
           and instructive.                         --L'Estrange.


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

  Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n.
     Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from
     an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
     [1913 Webster] Monitress

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  monitory
       adj : serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
             exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
              {exemplary}, {warning(a)}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  65 Moby Thesaurus words for "monitory":
     admonishing, admonitory, advisory, augural, cautionary, cautioning,
     communicative, consultative, consultatory, counseling, critical,
     deterrent, didactic, directive, discouraging, disinclining,
     dissuading, dissuasive, educational, educative, enlightening,
     exemplary, exhortative, exhortatory, expostulative, expostulatory,
     forerunning, foreshadowing, foreshowing, foretokening, forewarning,
     heavy with meaning, hortative, hortatory, indicative,
     informational, informative, informing, instructive, intimidating,
     intuitive, meaningful, monitorial, moralistic, moralizing,
     notificational, notifying, preachy, precursive, precursory,
     predictive, prefigurative, preindicative, premonitory, presageful,
     presaging, prognostic, prognosticative, recommendatory,
     remonstrant, remonstrative, remonstratory, sententious,
     significant, warning