monition[noun]Synonyms: warning, admonition, caution, caveat, commonition, forewarning
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monition noun & verb.
[mǝ'nɪʃ(ǝ)n] LME.[Old & mod. French from Latin monitio(n-), from monit- pa. ppl stem of monere advise, warn: see -ITION.]A. noun.
1. =
ADMONITION.
LME.2. A warning of the presence or imminence of something (now
spec. of some impending danger).
LME.3. An official or legal notice,
esp. one calling on a person to do something specified;
spec. (
Ecclesiastical) a formal notice from a bishop or ecclesiastical court admonishing a person not to commit an offence.
LME.b. verb trans. Ecclesiastical. Warn by a monition.
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