Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Giving admonition; monitory.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Calling to mind; giving admonition.
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- adjective obsolete
calling to mind ; givingadmonition
Etymologies
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Latin commonitorius.
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Examples
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The Bishop of _Ravenna_, the Metropolis of _Flaminia_ and _Æmilia_, was also subject to the Pope: for _Zosimus_, A.C. 417, excommunicated some of the Presbyters of that Church, and wrote a commonitory Epistle about them to the Clergy of that Church as a branch of the _Roman_ Church: _In sua_, saith he, _hoc est, in Ecclesia nostra Romana_.
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John Isaac Newton 1684
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