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单词 monitory
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monitoryn.adj.

Brit. /ˈmɒnᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtɔri/
Forms: Middle English manyterge (transmission error), Middle English monytorie, Middle English–1600s monitorie, 1600s– monitory.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin monitoria, monitorium, monitōrius.
Etymology: As noun < post-classical Latin monitoria, monitorium monitory letter (1488 and 1543 respectively in British sources; c840 in sense ‘precept’), uses as noun of feminine and neuter respectively of classical Latin monitōrius (adjective) serving as a warning < monitor monitor n. + -ius , suffix forming adjectives (compare -ory suffix2). As adjective < classical Latin monitōrius. Compare Middle French †monitoire, adjective (1414), Middle French, French monitoire, noun (1597).With letter monitory, monitory letter, compare post-classical Latin litterae monitoriae, plural (1220 in a British source), Middle French lettres monitoires, plural (1456).
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.
2. An admonition; a warning. Obsolete.
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.
monitory lizard n. Obsolete a monitor lizard.
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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).
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