admonitory

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admonitory - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Admonitory \Ad*mon"i*to*ry\, a. [LL. admonitorius.]
     That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an
     admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.
     [1913 Webster]

admonitory - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  admonitory
      adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
             exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory,
             cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)]
      2: expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
         [syn: admonitory, admonishing, reproachful,
         reproving]