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[syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n.
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from
an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
[1913 Webster] Monitress
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. monitorius.]
Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
[1913 Webster]
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory
and instructive. --L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
monitory
adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory,
cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]