| 单词 |
monitorial |
| 释义 |
monitorial, a.|mɒnɪˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. L. monitōri-us (see monitory) + -al1, or ad. F. monitorial.]
1. = monitory a. 1, 1 b.
1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. ii. i. 17 The Senate being inform'd that the Monitorial Bull was publish'd. a1754Carte Hist. Eng. (1755) IV. 63 The Emperor..issued on the 30th of that month monitorial letters requiring him to lay down his arms. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany I. i. iv. 128 They resolved to preface hostilities with a monitorial address to the Palatine. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. viii. v. II. 342 His Majesty even honours him by expecting he should quietly keep a monitorial eye upon the Crown-Prince.
2. Of, pertaining to, connected with, or performed by monitors in schools.
1845R. W. Hamilton Pop. Educ. iv. (ed. 2) 81 Bell and Lancaster introduced the reciprocal and monitorial system. 1864Edin. Rev. July 185 The ‘monitorial’ system, or the system of governing the younger boys through the elder. 1888W. Hunt in Dict. Nat. Biog. XVI. 57/1 He [Drury, headmaster of Harrow] disliked flogging, and the system of monitorial caning seems to have grown up in his time.
3. Belonging to the monitors (monitor n. 5).
1878Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. July 92 In one special dental modification they are Iguanian, in another Monitorial.
Hence moniˈtorially adv., in a monitorial manner (1847 Webster). |
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