Crossword clues for monitory
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monitory \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.
Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Latin monitorius "admonishing," from monitus, past participle of monere (see monitor (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. giving admonition and warning n. a written letter giving admonition
WordNet
adj. serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, warning(a)]
Wikipedia
Monitory may refer to:
- Monition
- Monitory Democracy
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Usage examples of "monitory".
I pointed a finger at MacDonald, then in rapid succession clutched my throat, tongue protruding, grabbed my stomach with crossed forearms, then jabbed the finger again at him, then at myself, all the while giving him a monitory stare.
Whether the monitory fox was anywhere within the precincts I do not know, but I missed him at that time, and attributed to his absence the lapse from virtue which undermined my previous resolution, and in a moment undid the merits of exemplary years.
His aim was ever to teach his followers themselves to hear the inward monitory voice, and to obey it of their own accord.
He had ordered his hammock to be slung under some trees, being excessively fatigued, and was sleeping, when a monitory lizard passed across his face.
And sapped by each returning flood Accept for monitory nourishment Those worn roped features under crust of mud, Reflected in the silvery smooth around: Not less the branching and high singing tree, A home of nests, a landmark and a tent, Until their hour for losing hold on ground.
With a monitory finger Reggie directed the policeman to continue on guard.
She could see the monitory red blinking of the security system as it waited for her.
One would have had access to the breakfast menu of the Linno, the other the opportunity to receive the message from agent number one, tie up the radioman, type up the two notes-- both had been written on the radio-shack typewriter-- plant the bomb with its message, and then hurry to the disembarkation of Forte and his party from the Sun King and slip him the monitory note.
Michael shot a piercing, silent message from his eyes to Meiling, held up a brief monitory hand, then jerked open the compartment door.
I thank you: Blaxland did everything that was kind and hospitable - he desires his best compliments, by the way - and we saw the emu, various kinds of kangaroo, the echidna - good Lord, the echidnal - the small fat grey animal that sleeps high up in gum-trees and that very absurdly claims to be a bear, a great many of the parrot tribe, a nameless monitory lizard, all that we had hoped to see and more, except for the platypus.
His creation is too multivalent, the guilt too evenly shared by all for mere monitory finger-pointing.
In the second Pythian Ode10 Pindar repeats, and would appear to endorse, the old monitory legend of Ixion, who for his outrageous crimes was bound to an ever revolving wheel in Hades and made to utter warnings against such offences as his own.
I added,96 Diana Gabaldonpointing a monitory finger at a blue jay who had settled on a nearby branch.