单词 | monitory |
释义 | monitoryn.adj. A. n. 1. A letter containing an admonition or warning, esp. one issued by a bishop or pope. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > adviser or counsellor > something that serves to admonish monitory1437 commonitory?1567 monitory letter1608 monitor1623 mementoa1625 monitive1638 cautionary tale1907 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > admonition > letter containing monitory1437 monitor1515 monitory letter1608 1437 in H. Nicolas Proc. & Ordinances Privy Council (1835) V. 64 Þe general counceil..have decreed a certaine monytorie ageyns oure hooly fader þe Pope..the which monitorie is lykly..to gendre a scisme in þe chirch. 1624 F. Bacon Apophthegmes §47. 62 There was a King of Hungarie tooke a Bishop in battell... Whereupon the Pope writ a Monitorie to him, for that hee had broken the priviledge of Holy Church. 1707 London Gaz. No. 4360/1 There are Three Monitories printed, and affix'd in the most frequented Places of that City. 1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 458 A monitory, or summons, to appear in fifteen days, was affixed on the church doors. 1816 F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. ii. xi. 479 Ferdinand..in a thundering monitory, annulled their proceedings. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire v. 219 This testimony, given with a vagueness that ought to have proved it legally valueless, was the fruit of the episcopal monitory. 1943 Amer. Hist. Rev. 49 51 If he wished to proceed against him, there should have been first a monitory, then a citation, then a hearing..and finally public trial. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition warningc1000 monishinga1382 admonition?c1400 monitionc1400 advertisementc1475 monishment1483 premonishment?1548 document1549 caveat1557 warner1565 commonition1566 monitory?1567 commonefaction1576 memento1580 lessoning1583 alarm1608 beacon1609 cautiona1616 documentation1753 heads up1977 ?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxxviii. 218 This hye profound: oration, A monitorie is: To God to turne. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. iv. 19 I see not why they should denie God that libertie to impose, or man that necessitie to need such monitories. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 31 Monitories, encouragements and excitements to our duty. a1763 W. King Polit. & Lit. Anecd. (1818) 185 The history of the good Samaritan..ought to be a monitory to all their successors. B. adj. Giving or conveying a warning; serving to admonish; admonitory. Also (occasionally) with of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [adjective] monitoryc1475 warning1552 portentous1553 forewarning1576 admonitory1577 cautionary1638 premonitory1647 precautionary1648 noutheticala1652 cautional1656 cautioning1747 monitorial1816 pre-warning1892 heads up1979 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [adjective] > admonishing monitoryc1475 commonitory1570 admonitory1577 cautionary1638 precautionary1648 cautional1656 admonitivea1677 monitivea1677 monitorial1725 cautioning1747 admonitorial1848 c1475 Mankind (1969) 879 (MED) Mankend, ȝe were obliuyows of my doctrine manyterge. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. Contents sig. **4v Epistle Monitorie to a father to preuent his sonnes lewd demeanor. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry 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. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. iii. 185 The general difference between Prophetical Dreams and those that are merely Nouthetical or Monitory. 1692 R. 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. 1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1842) I. 298 These were the sole object of the monitory resolution of this house. 1819 W. Wordsworth Waggoner ii. 154 He heard the monitory growl [of a mastiff]. 1834 Tracts for Times No. 22. 10 ‘The Warning Clauses’, or ‘The Monitory Clauses’ [of the Quicunque vult]. a1854 H. Reed Lect. Eng. Lit. (1855) v. 157 William Caxton—whose life is to be thought of..as monitory of ‘perpetual industry’. 1885 Manch. Examiner 26 June 5/3 Lord Brabourne had to say a few monitory words to bring the preachers back to their forgotten text. 1949 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 63 554 The principle of parsimony is a monitory rather than a prohibitory commandment. 1987 E. Dunlop House on Hill (1990) viii. 47 He heard the chill, monitory wail of an air raid siren. Compounds monitory letter n. now historical = sense A. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > adviser or counsellor > something that serves to admonish monitory1437 commonitory?1567 monitory letter1608 monitor1623 mementoa1625 monitive1638 cautionary tale1907 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > admonition > letter containing monitory1437 monitor1515 monitory letter1608 1558–9 in J. Stuart Misc. Spalding Club (1849) IV. 57 For preching to be maid within the hail diocie, that thair be send letteris monitouris vpon the haill personis, abotis and prioris, to caus preching to be maid.] 1608 J. Bavant Let. 26 Nov. in T. Fitzherbert Lett. (1948) 86 Some fewe of our brethern have..quietly submitted them selfes upon the Popes Breves and your Monitorie letters. 1699 C. Mather in J. Quincy Hist. Harvard Univ. (1840) I. 487 I have already written a large monitory letter to those innovators. 1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V III. x. 211 The Pope..immediately issued monitory letters. 1888 G. E. Ellis Puritan Age 521 A monitory letter from the King in the spring of 1666 had received but slight attention, and no reply, from the Court. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Varanidae or genus Varanus > member of (monitor) guana1697 worrala1701 monitory lizard1790 monitor1802 goanna1831 safeguard1831 sauvegarde1840 varanian1841 varan1843 water lizard1865 monitor lizard1869 varanid1896 varanus1934 1790 Nat. Hist. in J. White Jrnl. Voy. New S. Wales App. 253 This Lizard approaches..near to the Lacerta Monitor of Linnæus, or Monitory Lizard. 1810 Naval Chron. 23 59 That extraordinary animal called the Monitory Lizard, from its faculty of warning persons of the approach of any venomous animal. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 332/1 The warning of these Monitory Lizards was said to be a hissing or whistling. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1437 |
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