Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Monitory
Mon′i·to·ry (·tō·ry̆), a. [L. monitorius.] Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.
Mon′i·to·ry, n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.