Definitions for monitory

monitory mon·i·to·ry

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

Monitory is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in monitory (imnoorty).

Definitions for monitory

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 monitory

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

Examples for monitory

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

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

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

The rattlesnake hushed his monitory signal as he approached her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for monitory
Scrable

13

Words with friends

14

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