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Monitorial

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Monitorial
    Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. monitorial
    Monitory; admonitory.
  2. monitorial
    Pertaining to or connected with a monitor or monitors, especially in the scholastic sense; conducted or carried on by monitors; proceeding from or performed by monitors; hence, in a general sense, educational; disciplinary: as, a monitorial school; a monitorial system; monitorial instruction; monitorial duties.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (adj) Monitorial
    relating to a monitor: performed or taught by a monitor
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary L.,—monēre, -itum, to remind.

Usage in literature

His aim was ever to teach his followers themselves to hear the inward monitory voice, and to obey it of their own accord. "The Forged Coupon and Other Stories" by Leo Tolstoy

Placards from Section, from Commune, from Legislative, from the individual Patriot, flame monitory on all walls. "The French Revolution" by Thomas Carlyle

Her cheeks were hot and she was scarcely restrained by the priest's monitory palm on her shoulder. "Joan of Arc of the North Woods" by Holman Day

Unfortunately at Roslyn the monitorial system was not established. "Eric, or Little by Little" by Frederic W. Farrar

I'm afraid we shall have a regular monitorial row. "St. Winifred's" by Frederic W. Farrar

Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc. "The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul" by Jirah D. Buck

Monitorial system of, 307. "History of Education" by Levi Seeley

He also adopted the monitorial method, but, as a Quaker, omitting the Church teaching of the Bell schools. "A History of Horncastle from the earliest period to the present time" by James Conway Walter

Malone opened his mouth to speak, but Her Majesty raised a monitory hand. "Occasion for Disaster" by Gordon Randall Garrett

What says its monitory shade? "The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2" by William Lisle Bowles

Usage in poetry
And cracking frieze and rotten metope
Express, as though they were an open tome
Top-lined with caustic monitory gnome;
"Dunces, Learn here to spell Humanity!"
"Rome: Building A New Street In The Ancient Quarter." by Thomas Hardy Author object (646)
Then sudden and fierce, no monitory moan,
Smote the mad mischief of the great cyclone.
How far below us all its fury rolled!
How vainly sulphur tries to tarnish gold!
We lived together: all its malice meant
Nothing but freedom of a continent!
"A Birthday" by Aleister Crowley Author object (20)