About The Word Monitory
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Monitory
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What's The Definition Of Monitory?
[adj] serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Monitory: admonitory | cautionary | dissuasive | exemplary | warning(a) Related Terms | Find terms related to Monitory: 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 See Also | Monitory In Webster's Dictionary \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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