Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Monition

Monition , noun

[French, from Latin monitio, from monere to warn, bring to mind; akin to English mind. See Mind, and compare 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.
(Ecclesiastical Law) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. — Shipley