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monitory, a. and n.|ˈmɒnɪtərɪ|
Also 5 manyterye.
[ad. L. monitōri-us, f. monitor: see monitor and -ory. Cf. F. monitoire.]
A. adj.
1. Giving or conveying a warning; serving to admonish; admonitory.
c1450Mankind 872 in Macro Plays 33 Mankend, ȝe were obliuyows of my doctrine manyterye. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 3 Sundry Epistles, the titles whereof are..Monitorie, Accusatorie..and such like. 1622Bacon Hen. VII, 75 The King also made a Statute in that Parliament, Monitory and Minatory, towards Iustices of Peace, that they should duly execute their office. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 199 The general difference between prophetical dreams and those that are merely nouthetical or monitory. 1692R. L'Estrange Fables xxxi. 31 That which was Rudeness, and Ill Nature in the Aggressor, was only a Monitory Justice, and a Discreet Sharpness in the Other. 1783Burke Sp. Fox's E. India Bill Wks. 1842 I. 298 These were the sole object of the monitory resolution of this house. 1819Wordsw. Waggoner ii. 154 He heard the monitory growl [of a mastiff]. 1834Tracts for Times No. 22. 10 ‘The Warning Clauses’, or ‘The Monitory Clauses’ [of the Quicunque vult]. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Truth Wks. (Bohn) II. 52 The mottoes of their families are monitory proverbs. 1885Manch. Exam. 26 June 5/3 Lord Brabourne had to say a few monitory words to bring the preachers back to their forgotten text.
Const. of
a1854H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. v. (1855) 157 William Caxton—whose life is to be thought of..as monitory of ‘perpetual industry’.
b. monitory letter = B. 2.
1696Phillips (ed. 5), Monitory Letters, Letters from an Ecclesiastical Judge, upon Information of Scandals and Abuses within Cognizance of his Court. 1699C. Mather in Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 487, I have already written a large monitory letter to those innovators. 1769Robertson Chas. V, x. III. 211 The Pope..immediately issued monitory letters. 1839James Louis XIV, II. 23 Judging that the monitory letters he received were rather from the hands of enemies than of friends, he displayed a calm countenance.
2. monitory lizard = monitor n. 5.
1810Naval Chron. XXIII. 59 That extraordinary animal called the Monitory Lizard, from its faculty of warning persons of the approach of any venomous animal. 1839Penny Cycl. XV. 332/1 The warning of these Monitory Lizards was said to be a hissing or whistling.
B. n.
†1. An admonition; something that serves as a warning. Obs.
c1557Abp. Parker Ps. lxxviii. 118 Argt., This hye profound oration A monitorie is To God to turne. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. iv. 19, I see not why they should denie God that libertie to impose, or man that necessitie to need such monitories. a1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. iii. 31 Monitories, encouragements and excitements to our duty.
2. A letter containing an admonition or warning, esp. one issued by a bishop or pope.
1624Bacon Apothegm 70 in Resuscitatio (1661) 303 There was a King of Hungary, took a Bishop in Battel,..Whereupon the Pope writ a Monitory to him; For that he had broken the priviledge of Holy Church. 1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4360/1 There are Three Monitories printed, and affix'd in the most frequented Places of that City. 1790Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 458 A monitory, or summons, to appear in fifteen days, was affixed on the church doors. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xi. 479 Ferdinand..in a thundering monitory, annulled their proceedings. 1872Morley Voltaire 219 This testimony, given with a vagueness that ought to have proved it legally valueless, was the fruit of the episcopal monitory. |