MONITORY

a. n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

2.
n.

Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.