MONITORY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'mânituree
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| Matching Terms: | | monitor, monitor lizard, Monitor nozzle, monitor program, Monitorial, Monitorially, monitoring, monitoring device, monitoring program, Monitorship
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| | Definition: | | [adj] serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" |
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| | 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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