monition

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mo=ni=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

monition, n. [F., fr. L. monitio, from monere to warn, bring to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Admonish, Money, Monster.].

•  Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.  [1913 Webster]

  "Sage monitions from his friends."  [1913 Webster]
•  Information; indication; notice; advice.  [1913 Webster]

  "We have no visible monition of . . . other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness."  [1913 Webster]
•  A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.  [1913 Webster]
•  An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.  Shipley.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

monition, n.
1 (foll. by of) literary a warning (of danger).
2 Eccl. a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court admonishing a person not to commit an offence.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L monitio -onis (as MONITOR)

THESAURUS

monition

admonishment, admonition, advice, advising, advocacy, alarm, alerting, briefing, caution, cautioning, caveat, certiorari, citation, clue, consultation, council, counsel, cue, determent, deterrence, deterrent example, direction, example, exhortation, expostulation, final notice, final warning, forewarning, frightening off, garnishment, guidance, habeas corpus, hint, hortation, idea, instruction, intimidation, lesson, moral, notice, notification, object lesson, office, opinion, parley, passing word, pointer, proposal, recommendation, remonstrance, steer, subpoena, suggestion, summons, talking out of, thought, threat, tip, tip-off, ultimatum, venire, venire de novo, venire facias, verbum sapienti, warning, warning piece, whisper, writ of summons

ROGET THESAURUS

monition

Warning

N warning, early warning, caution, caveat, notice, premonition, premonishment, prediction, contraindication, lesson, dehortation, admonition, monition, alarm, handwriting on the wall, mene mene tekel upharsin, red flag, yellow flag, fog-signal, foghorn, siren, monitor, warning voice, Cassandra, signs of the times, Mother Cary's chickens, stormy petrel, bird of ill omen, gathering clouds, clouds in the horizon, death watch, watchtower, beacon, signal post, lighthouse, sentinel, sentry, watch, watchman, watch and ward, watchdog, bandog, housedog, patrol, patrolman, vedette, picket, bivouac, scout, spy, spial, undercover agent, mole, plainclothesman, advanced guard, rear guard, lookout, cautiousness, monitor, guard camera, radar, AWACS, spy satellite, spy-in-the- sky, U2 plane, spy plane, warning, premonitory, monitory, cautionary, admonitory, admonitive, sematic, warned, forewarned, on one's guard, in terrorem, Int, beware!, ware!, take care!, look out!, fore (golf), mind what you are about!, take care what you are about!, mind!, ne reveillez pas le chat qui dort, don't wake a sleeping cat, foenum habet in cornu, caveat actor, le silence du people est la legon des rois, verbum sat sapienti, a word to the wise is sufficient, un averti en vaut deux.

Information

N information, enlightenment, acquaintance, knowledge, publicity, data, communication, intimation, notice, notification, enunciation, annunciation, announcement, communiqu_e, representation, round robin, presentment, case, estimate, specification, report, advice, monition, news, return, account, statement, mention, acquainting, instruction, outpouring, intercommunication, communicativeness, informant, authority, teller, intelligencer, reporter, exponent, mouthpiece, informer, eavesdropper, delator, detective, sleuth, mouchard, spy, newsmonger, messenger, amicus curiae, valet de place, cicerone, pilot, guide, guidebook, handbook, vade mecum, manual, map, plan, chart, gazetteer, itinerary, hint, suggestion, innuendo, inkling, whisper, passing word, word in the ear, subaudition, cue, byplay, gesture, gentle hint, broad hint, verbum sapienti, a word to the wise, insinuation, information theory, bit, byte, word, doubleword, quad word, paragraph, segment, magnetic media, paper medium, optical media, random access memory, RAM, read-only memory, ROM, write once read mostly memory, WORM, informed, communique, reported, published, expressive, explicit plain spoken, (artless), nuncupative, nuncupatory, declaratory, expository, enunciative, communicative, communicatory, from information received, a little bird told me, I heard it through the grapevine.