monitionn.

Brit.

/mɒˈnɪʃn/,

/məˈnɪʃn/, U.S.

/məˈnɪʃ(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English manicioun (transmission error), Middle English monicioun, Middle English monycioun, Middle English monycyon, Middle English monyssion, Middle English–1500s monycion, Middle English–1600s monicion, 1500s monysyon, 1500s monytion, 1500s– monition; Scottish pre-1700 monetioun, pre-1700 monicion, pre-1700 monicione, pre-1700 monicioun, pre-1700 monisioun, pre-1700 monition, pre-1700 monitioun, pre-1700 monitioune, pre-1700 monitiounn, pre-1700 monitoune, pre-1700 monycion, pre-1700 monytion, pre-1700 monytyown.

Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French monition; Latin monitiōn-, monitiō.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monicion and Middle French monicion, monition exhortation, warning (late 13th cent. in Old French; 14th cent. in sense ‘monitory letter, warning from an ecclesiastical authority’; 1501 in sense ‘instruction, teaching’) or their etymon classical Latin monitiōn-, monitiō advising or warning, admonition, in post-classical Latin also summons (9th cent.), monitory letter, writ (from early 12th cent. in British sources), formal ecclesiastical admonition (from 13th cent. in British sources) < monit- , past participial stem of monēre to advise, warn (see moneo n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare admonition n. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (mŏni·ʃən) /məˈnɪʃən/.

1. (a) Instruction, direction, prompting; an instance of this. Now rare. (b) Warning, admonition; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition

warningc1000

monishinga1382

admonition?c1400

monitionc1400

advertisementc1475

monishment1483

premonishment?1548

document1549

caveat1557

warner1565

commonition1566

monitory?1567

commonefaction1576

memento1580

lessoning1583

alarm1608

beacon1609

cautiona1616

documentation1753

heads up1977

society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction

monitionc1400

advertisementc1475

injunction1526

enjoining1564

direction1569

enjoinment1646

enjoinance1782

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 66 (MED) And he wente to alle þat weren in prisoune and ȝaf hem moniciouns [L. monita] of helþe.

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 121 (MED) Þan he sett hir a day, comawndyng hir for to aperyn beforn hym in þe Chapelhows, And sche seyd þat sche wolde obey hys monycyon wyth a good wil.

?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 263 But neuer for..the monyssions ne warnynges of cassandra the kyng wold not change his purpoos.

c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 49 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 130 Þe kinge..gerte mak gret monicione, þat al þat euire vare in þe tovne suld..cum to þat feste.

1516 Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. lviii^v* By monycion of the Archaungell gabryell they made a Churche..of our Lady.

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Celebr. Lordes Svpper sig. C.i O Lord..: Geue vs grace to vse such abstinence, that..we maye euer obeye thy godly monicions.

a1605 (c1422) T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.: Stowe) l. 234 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 118 At the exitynge and monicion of a devout man take I here on hond[e] this labowr.

1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 116 That peremptory monition to his Apostles..Pray that yee enter not into temptation.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 66 The capital sufferings of others are rather our monitions than acquitments.

1735 J. Swift Author upon Himself in Wks. II. 344 Sage Monitions from his Friends, His Talents to employ for nobler Ends.

1736 Prompter 30 Jan. (verso) The two means of conveying..Instruction [in good conduct] are Tragedy and Comedy. To introduce a Dislike to either, the immediate Effect of Pantomime, is.. rendering the best means of Reformation (Pleasure mix'd with Monition) less productive.

1788 Ld. Lifford Let. 30 Aug. in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) I. 422 The weakness of my limbs,..and many other monitions that tell me the day of great infirmity is at hand, ought not to be unattended to.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xiii. 295 To them the voice of Prophecy, of heavenly monition, is quite ended.

1879 J. R. Green Readings Eng. Hist. xxiii. 117 Turning the deafest of all deaf ears to the monitions which he received to stay.

1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 8/2 A superior altitude..adds an irritancy to the monition tendered.

1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 542 Emerson's denunciation of all merely social efforts to do good, which amounted to a species of apostasy, a delegation of bits of what should remain integral and inviolate, one's inner monitions.

a. An official or legal notification, esp. one calling on a person to do something specified.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > notification

monitionc1460

signification1533

warning1579

garnishment1585

intimation1632

factorizing1809

originating notice1881

legal1896

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 92 (MED) After thre monicions or warnynges.

1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 406 That the citezeins that be named..appere in the yeld halle..vpon monicion to them yeven by eny seriaunt.

1492 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 78 That than the seyd aldyrman..shall after resonable warnyng and ther monycion avoyde hym.

1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 4 Preamble Of the which outlaries..the partie defendaunt..had never knowlege ne monycion.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxv. f. 85 Onely hering that he was chosen Pretor, before that he had monition therof, he fledde.

1615 Act 12 Jas. I c. 8 in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 434 That every person should have lawfull knowledge and monition of such actions as hereafter bee to be..sued against him.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 180 In all Extra-judicial Acts, one Citation, Monition, or Extra-judicial Interpellation is sufficient.

1863 B. Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. x. 311 I hear that this monition is to be issued at the V.-C. Court next week.

1993 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 980 351/1 ‘The nonresidents’..allege that they were unaware of the monition deadlines because they did not reside in the area where the notice was published.

b. Ecclesiastical Law. A formal notice from a bishop, an ecclesiastical court, etc., admonishing a person to refrain or desist from doing something specified, or commanding a person to do something specified.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > admonition

monition1509

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlix To thy monycion my bysshop I assent.

1551 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 485/2 All persounis quhilkis..makis perturbatioun in the kirk..and will not desist..for na spirituall monitioun that the kirkmen may vse.

1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 275 That all Translations of Prelates, all depriuations, reuocations, monitions, Ecclesiasticall censures..shall be voide, vaine, and of none effect.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Monition,..a warning given by Ecclesiastical Authority to a Clerk to reform his Manners, upon Intimation of his Scandalous Life.

1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. iii. i. 77 What Monitions soever, Excommunications or Interdicts he [sc. the Pope] may make.

1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 113 The judge is wont to write to the bishop in the form of law, and this writing they call a duplex querela. This duplex querela is to contain a monition to the bishop.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 77 (note) A severe monition from Archbishop Morton to the abbot of St. Alban's, imputing all kinds of scandalous vices to him and his monks.

1847 H. C. Coote Pract. Eccl. Courts 255 [Form of] Monition to Refrain.

1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 54 §15 Every monition..served on him pursuant to any of the provisions of the first-mentioned Act.

1906 Sir L. Dibdin in Guardian 28 Feb. 347/2 I suspend Mr. F. from office and benefice for two years. I monition him not to offend again... Disobedience to the monition which I have decreed..can be..dealt with by the infliction of an even severer sentence.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1188/1 In ecclesiastical procedure... A monition may also be appended to a sentence inflicting a punishment for a past offence.

1996 Church Times 9 Feb. 11/4 I cannot recall having received any monitions in the Church of England.

c. Maritime Law. A process similar to a writ of summons, commencing a cause for the condemnation of a ship as prize. Also: an order, esp. of the admiralty court, commanding a person to do something. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > summons

citationc1325

summonancec1410

process1423

summons1429

summonitionc1455

venire facias1463

letters citatory1465

summonda1500

interpellation1579

butterfly1583

exploit1622

monition1649

cital1760

venire1763

exaction1816

assignation1884

blister1903

bluey1909

blue1939

1649 Act making Prize Ships 169 The parties appealing, shall [procure]..also a monition to the Register of the Admiralty, to transmit the process with all speed.

1707 Act 6 Anne c.64 §4 And for the more speedy proceeding to Condemnation..of any Prize Ship or Vessel..the proper Monition usual in such Cases shall be issued..[and] executed..with the Space of Three Days.

1760 Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 Jan. 3/1 On Wednesday the 12th, a Citation or Monition was issued on a Petition of Benjamin Stoddard, Commander of the Carolina, requiring the Captors to take the legal Steps in five Days, according to the late Act of Parliament.

1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 182 If a monition is to go against the Admiral for not issuing his revocatory orders; a monition, might in like manner, go against the Lords of the Admiralty, for a similar neglect.

1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 214 A monition had been taken out against the captors to proceed to adjudication.

1840 J. Haggard Cases Admiralty III. 300 The Court..further decreed a monition against Matthew Russell.

1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 78 §13 It shall be competent to him to proceed by way of Monition, citing the Owner or Owners of such Ship [etc.]..to appear and defend the Suit.

1917 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 11 873 In reply to the monition..for the entry of claims in respect of ship [sc. the Appam] and cargo, nobody has applied within the stipulated period of six weeks.

1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1188/1 In admiralty practice, a monition was a formal order of the court commanding something to be done... When money was decreed to be paid, a monition might be obtained commanding its payment.

1988 William & Mary Q. 45 440 The captors paid without obliging them to resort to the complicated procedures for enforcing payment; the mere threat to take out a monition that would have rendered Grey liable to arrest was sufficient.

3. A (usually non-verbal) warning, sign, or intimation of the presence or imminence of something (now frequently of some impending danger); an omen.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun]

warningOE

warnishinga1400

monition?a1475

premonition1533

animadvertencec1550

preadmonition1652

animadvertisement1655

forewarning1659

premunition1693

warna1851

warnishment1894

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > a warning or caution

monition?a1475

caveat1557

take-heed1596

alarm1608

cautiona1616

precaution1658

society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun] > forewarn or forewarning

advertisementc1475

premonition1533

forewarning1548

premonishment?1548

animadversion1567

monition1694

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 229 In that he ȝafe not to hym a monicion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. warned hym noȝt; L. eum non præmunierat] þer of.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. xlviii. 569 Blacke gete gyuyth monycyon of them that haue fendys wythin theym.

c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vii. 27 Before the generall flood..when everye man forslept the monytion.

1694 W. Holder Disc. Time vi. 72 We have no visible Monition of the Returns of any other Periods, such as we have of the Day, by Successive Light and Darkness.

1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vi. 243 Indignant Jove deep to the nether world The rebel band in blazing thunders hurl'd. Alas! the great monition lost on you, Supine you slumber.

1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 332/1 These Monitory Lizards..obtained credit for this monition solely from the accident of their haunts.

1906 Daily News 10 Apr. 6 The first monitions of the impending catastrophe occurred in 63 a.d., when..Campania was shaken by an earthquake.

1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 67 Omens, monitions, hints of fate.

1988 P. Gay Freud ii. 58 14362... The last two digits, he was convinced, were an ominous monition that sixty-two was indeed to be his life's span.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	monition
释义	monitionn. Brit. /mɒˈnɪʃn/, /məˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /məˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English manicioun (transmission error), Middle English monicioun, Middle English monycioun, Middle English monycyon, Middle English monyssion, Middle English–1500s monycion, Middle English–1600s monicion, 1500s monysyon, 1500s monytion, 1500s– monition; Scottish pre-1700 monetioun, pre-1700 monicion, pre-1700 monicione, pre-1700 monicioun, pre-1700 monisioun, pre-1700 monition, pre-1700 monitioun, pre-1700 monitioune, pre-1700 monitiounn, pre-1700 monitoune, pre-1700 monycion, pre-1700 monytion, pre-1700 monytyown. Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French monition; Latin monitiōn-, monitiō. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monicion and Middle French monicion, monition exhortation, warning (late 13th cent. in Old French; 14th cent. in sense ‘monitory letter, warning from an ecclesiastical authority’; 1501 in sense ‘instruction, teaching’) or their etymon classical Latin monitiōn-, monitiō advising or warning, admonition, in post-classical Latin also summons (9th cent.), monitory letter, writ (from early 12th cent. in British sources), formal ecclesiastical admonition (from 13th cent. in British sources) < monit- , past participial stem of monēre to advise, warn (see moneo n.) + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare admonition n. N.E.D. (1907) gives only the pronunciation (mŏni·ʃən) /məˈnɪʃən/. 1. (a) Instruction, direction, prompting; an instance of this. Now rare. (b) Warning, admonition; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > cautionary advice or admonition warningc1000 monishinga1382 admonition?c1400 monitionc1400 advertisementc1475 monishment1483 premonishment?1548 document1549 caveat1557 warner1565 commonition1566 monitory?1567 commonefaction1576 memento1580 lessoning1583 alarm1608 beacon1609 cautiona1616 documentation1753 heads up1977 society > authority > command > command or bidding > [noun] > injunction or instruction monitionc1400 advertisementc1475 injunction1526 enjoining1564 direction1569 enjoinment1646 enjoinance1782 c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 66 (MED) And he wente to alle þat weren in prisoune and ȝaf hem moniciouns [L. monita] of helþe. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 121 (MED) Þan he sett hir a day, comawndyng hir for to aperyn beforn hym in þe Chapelhows, And sche seyd þat sche wolde obey hys monycyon wyth a good wil. ?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 263 But neuer for..the monyssions ne warnynges of cassandra the kyng wold not change his purpoos. c1480 (a1400) St. Thomas Apostle 49 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 130 Þe kinge..gerte mak gret monicione, þat al þat euire vare in þe tovne suld..cum to þat feste. 1516 Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. lviii^v* By monycion of the Archaungell gabryell they made a Churche..of our Lady. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Celebr. Lordes Svpper sig. C.i O Lord..: Geue vs grace to vse such abstinence, that..we maye euer obeye thy godly monicions. a1605 (c1422) T. Hoccleve Dialogus (Durh.: Stowe) l. 234 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 118 At the exitynge and monicion of a devout man take I here on hond[e] this labowr. 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 116 That peremptory monition to his Apostles..Pray that yee enter not into temptation. a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) ii. 66 The capital sufferings of others are rather our monitions than acquitments. 1735 J. Swift Author upon Himself in Wks. II. 344 Sage Monitions from his Friends, His Talents to employ for nobler Ends. 1736 Prompter 30 Jan. (verso) The two means of conveying..Instruction [in good conduct] are Tragedy and Comedy. To introduce a Dislike to either, the immediate Effect of Pantomime, is.. rendering the best means of Reformation (Pleasure mix'd with Monition) less productive. 1788 Ld. Lifford Let. 30 Aug. in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) I. 422 The weakness of my limbs,..and many other monitions that tell me the day of great infirmity is at hand, ought not to be unattended to. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xiii. 295 To them the voice of Prophecy, of heavenly monition, is quite ended. 1879 J. R. Green Readings Eng. Hist. xxiii. 117 Turning the deafest of all deaf ears to the monitions which he received to stay. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 8/2 A superior altitude..adds an irritancy to the monition tendered. 1992 Amer. Scholar Autumn 542 Emerson's denunciation of all merely social efforts to do good, which amounted to a species of apostasy, a delegation of bits of what should remain integral and inviolate, one's inner monitions. 2. a. An official or legal notification, esp. one calling on a person to do something specified. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > notification monitionc1460 signification1533 warning1579 garnishment1585 intimation1632 factorizing1809 originating notice1881 legal1896 c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 92 (MED) After thre monicions or warnynges. 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 406 That the citezeins that be named..appere in the yeld halle..vpon monicion to them yeven by eny seriaunt. 1492 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 78 That than the seyd aldyrman..shall after resonable warnyng and ther monycion avoyde hym. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 4 Preamble Of the which outlaries..the partie defendaunt..had never knowlege ne monycion. 1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance xxxv. f. 85 Onely hering that he was chosen Pretor, before that he had monition therof, he fledde. 1615 Act 12 Jas. I c. 8 in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 434 That every person should have lawfull knowledge and monition of such actions as hereafter bee to be..sued against him. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 180 In all Extra-judicial Acts, one Citation, Monition, or Extra-judicial Interpellation is sufficient. 1863 B. Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. x. 311 I hear that this monition is to be issued at the V.-C. Court next week. 1993 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 980 351/1 ‘The nonresidents’..allege that they were unaware of the monition deadlines because they did not reside in the area where the notice was published. b. Ecclesiastical Law. A formal notice from a bishop, an ecclesiastical court, etc., admonishing a person to refrain or desist from doing something specified, or commanding a person to do something specified. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] > admonition monition1509 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxlix To thy monycion my bysshop I assent. 1551 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) II. 485/2 All persounis quhilkis..makis perturbatioun in the kirk..and will not desist..for na spirituall monitioun that the kirkmen may vse. 1610 G. Carleton Iurisdict. 275 That all Translations of Prelates, all depriuations, reuocations, monitions, Ecclesiasticall censures..shall be voide, vaine, and of none effect. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Monition,..a warning given by Ecclesiastical Authority to a Clerk to reform his Manners, upon Intimation of his Scandalous Life. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin New Eccl. Hist. 17th Cent. I. iii. i. 77 What Monitions soever, Excommunications or Interdicts he [sc. the Pope] may make. 1763 R. Burn Eccl. Law I. 113 The judge is wont to write to the bishop in the form of law, and this writing they call a duplex querela. This duplex querela is to contain a monition to the bishop. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. ii. 77 (note) A severe monition from Archbishop Morton to the abbot of St. Alban's, imputing all kinds of scandalous vices to him and his monks. 1847 H. C. Coote Pract. Eccl. Courts 255 [Form of] Monition to Refrain. 1885 Act 48 & 49 Victoria c. 54 §15 Every monition..served on him pursuant to any of the provisions of the first-mentioned Act. 1906 Sir L. Dibdin in Guardian 28 Feb. 347/2 I suspend Mr. F. from office and benefice for two years. I monition him not to offend again... Disobedience to the monition which I have decreed..can be..dealt with by the infliction of an even severer sentence. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1188/1 In ecclesiastical procedure... A monition may also be appended to a sentence inflicting a punishment for a past offence. 1996 Church Times 9 Feb. 11/4 I cannot recall having received any monitions in the Church of England. c. Maritime Law. A process similar to a writ of summons, commencing a cause for the condemnation of a ship as prize. Also: an order, esp. of the admiralty court, commanding a person to do something. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > process, writ, warrant, or order > [noun] > summons citationc1325 summonancec1410 process1423 summons1429 summonitionc1455 venire facias1463 letters citatory1465 summonda1500 interpellation1579 butterfly1583 exploit1622 monition1649 cital1760 venire1763 exaction1816 assignation1884 blister1903 bluey1909 blue1939 1649 Act making Prize Ships 169 The parties appealing, shall [procure]..also a monition to the Register of the Admiralty, to transmit the process with all speed. 1707 Act 6 Anne c.64 §4 And for the more speedy proceeding to Condemnation..of any Prize Ship or Vessel..the proper Monition usual in such Cases shall be issued..[and] executed..with the Space of Three Days. 1760 Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 Jan. 3/1 On Wednesday the 12th, a Citation or Monition was issued on a Petition of Benjamin Stoddard, Commander of the Carolina, requiring the Captors to take the legal Steps in five Days, according to the late Act of Parliament. 1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 182 If a monition is to go against the Admiral for not issuing his revocatory orders; a monition, might in like manner, go against the Lords of the Admiralty, for a similar neglect. 1804 C. Robinson Rep. High Court Admiralty 4 214 A monition had been taken out against the captors to proceed to adjudication. 1840 J. Haggard Cases Admiralty III. 300 The Court..further decreed a monition against Matthew Russell. 1854 Act 17 & 18 Victoria c. 78 §13 It shall be competent to him to proceed by way of Monition, citing the Owner or Owners of such Ship [etc.]..to appear and defend the Suit. 1917 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 11 873 In reply to the monition..for the entry of claims in respect of ship [sc. the Appam] and cargo, nobody has applied within the stipulated period of six weeks. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh Dict. Eng. Law II. 1188/1 In admiralty practice, a monition was a formal order of the court commanding something to be done... When money was decreed to be paid, a monition might be obtained commanding its payment. 1988 William & Mary Q. 45 440 The captors paid without obliging them to resort to the complicated procedures for enforcing payment; the mere threat to take out a monition that would have rendered Grey liable to arrest was sufficient. 3. A (usually non-verbal) warning, sign, or intimation of the presence or imminence of something (now frequently of some impending danger); an omen. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] warningOE warnishinga1400 monition?a1475 premonition1533 animadvertencec1550 preadmonition1652 animadvertisement1655 forewarning1659 premunition1693 warna1851 warnishment1894 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > warning of imminent danger or evil > [noun] > a warning or caution monition?a1475 caveat1557 take-heed1596 alarm1608 cautiona1616 precaution1658 society > communication > information > intimation or making known > [noun] > forewarn or forewarning advertisementc1475 premonition1533 forewarning1548 premonishment?1548 animadversion1567 monition1694 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 229 In that he ȝafe not to hym a monicion [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. warned hym noȝt; L. eum non præmunierat] þer of. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvi. xlviii. 569 Blacke gete gyuyth monycyon of them that haue fendys wythin theym. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vii. 27 Before the generall flood..when everye man forslept the monytion. 1694 W. Holder Disc. Time vi. 72 We have no visible Monition of the Returns of any other Periods, such as we have of the Day, by Successive Light and Darkness. 1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad vi. 243 Indignant Jove deep to the nether world The rebel band in blazing thunders hurl'd. Alas! the great monition lost on you, Supine you slumber. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 332/1 These Monitory Lizards..obtained credit for this monition solely from the accident of their haunts. 1906 Daily News 10 Apr. 6 The first monitions of the impending catastrophe occurred in 63 a.d., when..Campania was shaken by an earthquake. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 67 Omens, monitions, hints of fate. 1988 P. Gay Freud ii. 58 14362... The last two digits, he was convinced, were an ominous monition that sixty-two was indeed to be his life's span. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2022). monitionv. Brit. /mɒˈnɪʃn/, /məˈnɪʃn/, U.S. /məˈnɪʃ(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: monition n. Etymology: < monition n. Ecclesiastical Law. rare. transitive. To warn by a monition (monition n. 2b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [verb (transitive)] > serve with notice of monition > warn by monition1883 1883 Q. Rev. 156 530 The offending clergymen had been solemnly monitioned. 1906 Guardian 28 Feb. 347/2 I suspend Mr. F. from office and benefice for two years. I monition him not to offend again. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1400v.1883
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