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Webster 1913 Edition
Monition
Mo-ni′tion
,Noun.
1.
Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Sage
monitions
from his friends. Swift.
2.
Information; indication; notice; advice.
We have no visible
monition
of . . . other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.
3.
(Admiralty Practice)
A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.
4.
(Eccl. Law)
An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.
Shipley.
Webster 1828 Edition
Monition
MONI'TION
,Noun.
1.
Warning; instruction given by way of caution; as the monitions of a friend.2.
Information; indication. We have no visible monitions of other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness.
Definition 2024
monition
monition
English
Noun
monition (plural monitions)
- A caution or warning. [from 14th c.]
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:
- He cherished the usual wise monitions, such as that one was not to make a fool of one's self and that one should not carry on one's technical experiments in public.
- 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:
- A legal notification of something. [from 15th c.]
- A sign of impending danger; an omen. [from 15th c.]
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
- I recognise the first ambiguous monitions of the destiny which afterwards so fully overshadowed me.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
Synonyms
- (caution or warning): caution, exhortation, warning
Related terms
Translations
caution or warning
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legal notification
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omen