Meaning of MONITORY
| Pronunciation: | | 'mânituree
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[adj] serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" |
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MONITORY is a 8 letter word that starts with M. |
| | Synonyms: | | admonitory, cautionary, dissuasive, exemplary, warning(a) |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. monitorius.]
Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory
and instructive. --L'Estrange.
\Mon"i*to*ry\, n.
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from
an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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