Word Meanings - MONITORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

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• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• MONITORY
  Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• GIVING
  1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• CAUTIONER
  A surety or sponsor. (more info) 1. One who cautions or advises.
• GIVER
  One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• WARNSTORE
  To furnish. "To warnstore your house." Chaucer.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• WARN
  To refuse. Chaucer.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• ADMONITION
  Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning. Syn. -- Admonition, Reprehension, Reproof. Admonition is prospective, and relates to moral delinquencies; its object
• GIVE
  To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign;
• ESTRANGEMENT
  The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation. An estrangement from God. J. C. Shairp. A long estrangement from better things. South.
• WARNINGLY
  In a warning manner.
• TERGIVERSATOR
  One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• THANKSGIVING
  1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• ALMSGIVING
  The giving of alms.
• MISGIVING
  Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• REGIVE
  To give again; to give back.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• OGIVE
  The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally.
• FOREWARN
  To warn beforehand; to give previous warning, admonition, information, or notice to; to caution in advance. We were forewarned of your coming. Shak.
• INCAUTION
  Want of caution. Pope.
• THANKSGIVER
  One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow.