Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. monitorius.]
   Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.

         Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory
         and instructive.                         --L'Estrange.

Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n.
   Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from
   an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

Source : WordNet®

monitory
     adj : serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
           exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
            {exemplary}, {warning(a)}]