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Definition of Monitory
1. Adjective. Serving to warn. "An exemplary jail sentence"
Similar to: Dissuasive
Derivative terms: Admonish, Admonish, Caution, Example
Definition of Monitory
1. a. Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
2. n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
Definition of Monitory
1. Adjective. giving admonition and warning ¹
2. Noun. a written letter giving admonition ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monitory
1. a letter of warning [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monitory
Literary usage of Monitory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400. Supplement by John Edwin Wells (1919)
"369 THE CHARTERS OF CHRIST [48]. The MSS. are enumerated in Miss Spalding's edition.
CHAPTER VII—PROVERBS AND PRECEPTS, AND monitory PIECES ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... but contra-monitory and in reply to DICK PROOF, Corrector. Of the sundry sorts
of vice, ... monitory ..."
3. The American Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, and Journal of Education (1824)
"monitory RECORD. For Sunday School Teachers.—Designed to be inserted on the first
pages of the Teacher's Class Book. " LORD MAKE ME TO KNOW MINE END, ..."
4. The Three Creeds by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (1908)
"§4 The monitory Clauses, and the Controversies raised on the use of the Athanasian
Creed IT is proposed in this section to give a brief account of the ..."
5. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1845)
"... equality—yet even to these he would offer one monitory suggestion—They are
critically situated with reference to the political .alliance of the church. ..."
6. A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1400. Supplement by John Edwin Wells (1919)
"369 THE CHARTERS OF CHRIST [48]. The MSS. are enumerated in Miss Spalding's edition.
CHAPTER VII—PROVERBS AND PRECEPTS, AND monitory PIECES ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"... but contra-monitory and in reply to DICK PROOF, Corrector. Of the sundry sorts
of vice, ... monitory ..."
8. The American Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, and Journal of Education (1824)
"monitory RECORD. For Sunday School Teachers.—Designed to be inserted on the first
pages of the Teacher's Class Book. " LORD MAKE ME TO KNOW MINE END, ..."
9. The Three Creeds by Edgar Charles Sumner Gibson (1908)
"§4 The monitory Clauses, and the Controversies raised on the use of the Athanasian
Creed IT is proposed in this section to give a brief account of the ..."
10. Essays on the Principles of Morality: And on the Private and Political by Jonathan Dymond (1845)
"... equality—yet even to these he would offer one monitory suggestion—They are
critically situated with reference to the political .alliance of the church. ..."
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