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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.