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.
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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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