monition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MONI'TION, noun [Latin monitio.] 1. Warning; instruction given by way of caution; as the monitions of a friend. 2. Information; indication. We have no visible monitions of other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness.
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