monitorial (monitorial)

[= F. Pg. mon i torial = It. monitor i ale; as monitory + -al.] 1. Monitory; admonitory.-2. Pertaining to or connected with a monitor or monitors, especially in the scholastic sense; conducted or carried on by monitors; proceeding from or performed by monitors; hence, in a general sense, educational; disciplinary: as, a monito rial school; a monitorial system; monitorial instruction; monitorial duties. Astonishing incidents which preceded, accompanied, or have followed the settlement of America.. plainly indicate a general tendency and coöper at i on of things towards the erection, in this country, of the great mon i torial school of political freedom. Everett, Orations, I. 152. monitorially (mon-i-to'ri-al-i), adv. In a monitorial manner; by monition; after the manner of a monitor.