monitive

Adjective

monitive (comparative more monitive, superlative most monitive)

1. Conveying admonition; admonitory.
   • although considering the needfulness, and usefulness of them in respect to publick benefit ( as they are exemplary and monitive )a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn]...
   • They are distinguished by comprehensive thought, clear appreciation, great political sagacity, and dignified monitive earnestness.1851, Mercersburg Quarterly Review - Volume 3, page 251
2. A mood implying an unpleasant or undesirable future consequence.
   • Maidu, too has a distinct combination of mood and aspect suffixes for a category labeled the 'monitive optative'.1985, Timothy Shopen, Language Typology and Syntactic Description, page 164
   • Maidu, a language of northern California, shows a comparable set of inflectional mood suffixes: an indicative -'æ, an interrogative -ḱade, and intentive (Ø), a monitive -y?y for warnings, a hortative -á, a present imperative -pi, and an absent imperative -padá for actions to be carried out at a...2001, Marianne Mithun, The Languages of Native North America, page 171
3. Having a person-machine relationship in which the machine performs a largely automated role with the person serving primarily the monitor the machine and ensure that it stays within specified bounds.
   • The advantages of a monitive system for a reliable system in preplanned situations could be preserved in connection with this demand if only the local and temporal borders are determined by a machine within which the operator has to hold the dimensions to be influenced of the system.2012, Michael Stein, Peter Sandl, Information Ergonomics, page 52
   • But also some human properties are important for the decision man or machine: the control and supervisory task of a monitive system are characterized by monotony.2013, Heinz Schmidtke, Ergonomic Data for Equipment Design, page 49