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Definition of Monitions
1. monition [n] - See also: monition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monitions
Literary usage of Monitions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783 by Charles McLean Andrews (1914)
"monitions. monitions. 1-53. 1664-1787. monitions. Many years wanting. monitions were
issued in the name of the king and signed by the register of the High ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1836)
"... most hospitable city — shall they not be presented to thee, kind reader, in
the next subsections of Thine, heartily, and to serve, AUTUMNAL monitions. ..."
3. Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries by Leigh Hunt (1828)
"... in the perusal of a manuscript by the monitions of his police officers, who
were obliged to remind him over and over again that he was a magistrate, ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1871)
"In two volumes Third edition, carefully revised, with important additions and an
appendix. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1871. \ The monitions of the Unseen, ..."
5. Commentaries Upon Martial Law: With Special Reference to Its Regulation and by William Francis Finlason, Alexander James Edmund Cockburn (1867)
"... too late to prevent the occurrence of all excesses, yet, when once issued and
recorded, they became useful as monitions or instructions against similar ..."
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