Defn: A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.
4. (Eccl. Law)
Defn: An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.
MONITIVE
Mon"i*tive, a.
Defn: Conveying admonition; admonitory. Barrow.
MONITOR
Mon"i*tor, n. Etym: [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]
1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon.
2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.