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English Dictionary: monitory by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
monitory
adj
  1. serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence"
    Synonym(s): admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Monitory \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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