monitory Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite serving to warn
    admonitory; warning; exemplary; cautionary.
    • shook a monitory finger at him
    • an exemplary jail sentence

WordNet

Mon"i*to*ry adjective
Etymology
L. monitorius.
Definitions
  1. Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
    Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.
Mon"i*to*ry noun
Definitions
  1. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

Webster 1913