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▪ I. cautionary, a. (n.)|ˈkɔːʃənərɪ|
[f. L. type *cautiōnāri-us: see caution n. and -ary1; cf. F. cautionnaire.]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of a pledge or security; held in pledge, or as a security or hostage. Now chiefly Hist. or Sc.
1597Sir F. Vere Comm. (1657) 70 The ordinary Garrison of the cautionary towns. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. viii. (1632) 556 That..all his cautionary Lords should be released. 1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 3 The Town of Flushing, the Castle of Ramakins in Zealand, and Brill in Holland, which were held by way of caution from the United Provinces, to insure their dependency upon England, the King resolved to render up, as being meerly cautionary. 1696Southerne Oroonoko iv. ii, And I am made the cautionary pledge, The gage and hostage of your keeping it. 1829Southey More (1831) II. 95 As a nation withdraws its cautionary troops from fortresses..in a friendly territory. 1844Blackw. Mag. LVI. 140 To bring Affghanistan within the general system of cautionary ties. 1860Motley Netherl. (1868) I. iv. 131 The cautionary towns were to be restored. 1883Scotsman 9 May 6/7 Cautionary obligations undertaken.
†2. Marked by caution, cautious. Obs.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. (1873) ii. xxi. §5 Doctrines..more fearful and cautionary than the nature of things requireth. 1649Selden Laws Eng. ii. vi. (1739) 34 The Prelates cautionary way of proceeding. 1806–31A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 79 This cautionary conduct.
3. Of the nature of, or conveying, a caution or admonition; warning, admonitory. Freq. in phr. cautionary tale.
1638Rouse Heav. Univ. x. (1702) 137 An Applicatory and Cautionary Chapter. 1711Steele Tatler No. 273 Many cautionary precepts for my future conduct. 1806Knox & Jebb Corr. I. 255 A long cautionary letter against the pernicious influence of philosophy and poetry. 1850L. Hunt Autobiog. v. (1860) 107 It had a cautionary effect. 1884Cyclists' Tour. Club Gaz. Dec. 362/1 Cautionary as well as danger-boards should be prepared. 1907H. Belloc (title) Cautionary tales for children. 1930R. Macaulay Staying with Relations xx. 304 Julia rejected Mr. Phipps as a protagonist of a cautionary tale. 1959Observer 15 Mar. 22/7 Professor Bowers's first chapter is full of cautionary tales for practising reviewers and critics of this sort.
†4.
a. Of the nature of a provision against evil or danger; precautionary. Obs.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §33. 520 Cicero..makes a Law for them..but with a cautionary provision, that, etc. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) VI. 1980 Cautionary severity is ever invidious. 1826R. Peters in Pa. Hist. Soc. Mem. I. 88 He pursued such cautionary measures.
†b. Furnished with precautions. Obs.
1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 65 These ways are made cautionary enough..by these Posts and Ditch and Chain.
†B. n.
a. A security.
b. A personal security, a surety. Obs.
1655L'Estrange Chas. I, 121 Two his Head Towns should be left to the King as Cautionaries for performing the Covenants. 1655Digges Compl. Ambass. 370 The Duke..would become cautionary for the due observation of the same.
▪ II. cautionary
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