MONITION

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

2.
n.

Information; indication; notice; advice. We have no visible monition of ... other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.

3.
n.

A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

4.
n.

An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.


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