Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Monition

Monition , 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.
A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.
4.
An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.