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MONITORIAL

Definition: MONITORIAL

MONITORIAL

Adjective

1. Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.

2. Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "MONITORIAL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1856. (references)


Crosswords: MONITORIAL

English words defined with "MONITORIAL": LacasterianMonitorially. (references)
Non-English Usage: "MONITORIAL" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Portuguese (monitory).

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Commercial Usage: MONITORIAL

DomainTitle

Books

  • Book of the Chapter or Monitorial Instructions in the Degrees of Mark, Past and Most Excellent Master of the Royal Arch, 1858 (reference)

  • Joseph Lancaster and the Monitorial School Movement: a Documentary History (reference)

  • Monitorial Instructions for the Use of Symbolic Lodges of Free and Accepted Masons, 1915 (reference)

  • The monitorial systems of Lancaster and Bell (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: MONITORIAL

"MONITORIAL" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MONITORIAL" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: MONITORIAL

Language Translations for "MONITORIAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

këshillues (consultant, consulting, hortative, hortatory), i kujdesshëm (accurate, attentive, canny, careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, circumspective, conservative, considerate, deliberate, diligent, forethoughtful, forward-looking, grandmotherly, guarded, heedful, observant, precise, thoughtful, up and coming, wary). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

наставнически (monitory, preceptive, preceptorial). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

συμβουλευτικόσ (advisory, consultative, deliberative, monitory, preachy), προειδοποιητικόσ (cautionary, monitory, precursory, premonitary, premonitory). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

intõ (admonitory). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onitorialmay

   

Portuguese

  

fiscalizar produção. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

увещевательный (exhortative), наставительный (hortative, preceptive). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

redarski. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: MONITORIAL

Misspellings

"MONITORIAL" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mexiteria. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "MONITORIAL"

Words rhyming with "MONITORIAL" (pronounced 'Mon`i*to"ri*al'): Abactinal, Abbatial, Abbatical, Abdal, Aberrational, Abettal, Abhal, Abhominal, Abiological, Abnormal, Aboral, Abortional, Abranchial, Absinthial, Abstractional, Abuttal, Abysmal, Abyssal, Academial, Accentual, Accessional, Accessorial, Accipitral, Accrementitial, Accrual, Accusal, Accusatival, Accusatorial, Acephal, Acerval, Acetal, Achenial, Acnodal, Aconital, Acoustical, Acquittal, Acranial, Acritical, Acromial, Acropetal, Acroterial, Actinal, Actinozoal, Actuarial, Adagial, Adambulacral, Adaptorial, Adenological, Adjectional, Adjectival. (additional references)

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Anagrams: MONITORIAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-t"

-1 letter: trinomial.

-2 letters: mirliton, monorail, motional.

-3 letters: amorini, amorino, amotion, intimal, martini, monitor, moonlit, oration, ortolan.

-4 letters: aroint, intima, latino, limina, lotion, maloti, manito, marlin, maroon, martin, matron, mitral, moirai, morion, mortal, motion, nitril, normal, oilman, oorali, ramtil, ration, ratlin, ratoon, rialto, romano, tailor, talion, trinal.

-5 letters: aioli, aloin, amino, amnio, amort, animi, imino, inarm, intro.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-o-o-r-t"
 

+1 letter: melioration.

 

+2 letters: admonitorily, amelioration, meliorations, moralization.

 

+3 letters: ameliorations, combinatorial, formalization, glamorization, informational, informatorily, microtonality, mitochondrial, moralizations, normalization, recompilation, triamcinolone.

 

+4 letters: confirmational, demoralization, formalizations, glamorizations, lognormalities, micropulsation, miscorrelation, mongrelization, normalizations, operationalism, polymerisation, polymerization, recompilations, remobilization, terminological, triamcinolones.

 

+5 letters: combinatorially, deglamorization, demoralizations, formularization, immortalization, improvisational, informationally, intermodulation, microanatomical, micropulsations, microtonalities, miscorrelations, mongrelizations, oligomerization, omnidirectional, operationalisms, overstimulation, polymerisations, polymerizations, recombinational, remobilizations, renormalization, trichomonacidal, trigonometrical.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: MONITORIAL


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 4F 4E 49 54 4F 52 49 41 4C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    -.    ..    -    ---    .-.    ..    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01001111 01001110 01001001 01010100 01001111 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#78 &#73 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 004E 0049 0054 004F 0052 0049 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47494843544952433546

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Rhymes
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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