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monitive (comparative more monitive, superlative most monitive)

  1. Conveying admonition; admonitory.
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Maker of Heaven and Earth”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. [], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, [], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
      and usefulness of them in respect to publick benefit ( as they are exemplary and monitive )

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for monitive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)