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monitory |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Monitory \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: monitory adj : serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary}, {exemplary}, {warning(a)}]
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