Definition of "monitorial" []

• Of, relating to, or performed by monitors. (adjective)
• Monitory. (adjective)

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• "Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc."
• "Whips and rods used in a kind of monitorial system by themselves had a great part in the education of these young aristocrats, and, as pain surely must do, pain not of bodily disease or wretched accidents, but as it were by dignified rules of art, seem to have refined them, to have made them observant of the minutest direction in those musical exercises, wherein eye and ear and voice and foot all alike combined."
• "[2] Southey was a supporter of Bell's new monitorial system of schooling, and had published a work advocating its adoption nationally: The Origin, Nature, and"