Definitions for monitories

monitories mon·i·to·ry

Spelling: [mon-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈmɒn ɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i/

Monitories is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 651 anagrams from letters in monitories (eiimnoorst).

Definitions for monitories

noun

  1. Also called monitory letter. a letter, as one from a bishop, containing a monition.

adjective

  1. serving to admonish or warn; admonitory.
  2. giving monition.

Origin of monitories

1400-50; late Middle English Latin monitōrius reminding, warning, equivalent to moni- (see monitor) + -tōrius -tory1

Examples for monitories

Well, he died—a monitory pause accompanies the sound—but the party must have a successor!

Him Nature solicits with all her placid, all her monitory pictures.

The face of this monitory Hebe haunted me for some years in a way that I must faintly attempt to explain.

To them, and to my countrymen at large, I offer this farewell, and this monitory counsel.

The rattlesnake hushed his monitory signal as he approached her.

The monitory voice penetrated at last; Harriet awoke, smiling.

Malone opened his mouth to speak, but Her Majesty raised a monitory hand.

It will be well for the rulers of Europe to heed its monitory voice.

He walked close to Mayo and shook a monitory finger under the young man's nose.

The tone in which these words were spoken was gentle rather than monitory.

Word Value for monitories
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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