Definition: monition

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

monition
     n 1: a firm rebuke [syn: admonition, admonishment]
     2: cautionary advice [syn: admonition, warning, word of
        advice]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Monition \Mo*ni"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. monitio, from monere to
   warn, bring to mind; akin to E. mind. See Mind, and cf.
   Admonish, Money, Monster.]
   1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an
      admonition; a warning; a caution.

            Sage monitions from his friends.      --Swift.

   2. Information; indication; notice; advice.

            We have no visible monition of . . . other periods,
            such as we have of the day by successive light and
            darkness.                             --Holder.

   3. (Admiralty Practice) A process in the nature of a summons
      to appear and answer.

   4. (Eccl. Law) An order monishing a party complained against
      to obey under pain of the law. --Shipley.