Monilicornes 
Monilicornes (mo-nil-i-kor'nez), n. i>l. [NL., < 
L. monile, a necklace, + cornu = E. horn.'] A 
group of mouilicorn beetles ; the fourth of five 
tribes into which Swainson divided the order 
Coleoptera, composed of five families, Cassida, 
Cltrysomelidce, Clytli- 
ridce, Erotytuke, and 
Hispldce. [Not in 
use.] 
moniliform (mo-nil'- 
i-form), a. [< L. 
monile, necklace, + 
forma, form.] Re- 
sembling a string of beads: applied in zool- 
ogy and botany to organs, vessels, stems, roots, 
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For I yow pray and eke monenti' 
Nought to ref usen our requeste. 
Sam. of the Rose, 1 
Moniliform Parts of PI, 
t. Tuberiferous rhizome of Equisetum fluviatite. 2. Fruits of So- 
phora Japonica. 
pods, etc., which have a series of beady swell- 
ings alternating with constrictions. Also mo- 
nilioid. 
In most Polychseta the intestine acquires . . . merely a 
mtmiUform appearance. Hiacley. Anat. Invert., p. 207. 
moniliformly (mo-nil'i-fdrm-li), adv. In a 
moniliform manner; in the form of a string of 
beads. 
monilioid (mo-nil'i-oid), a. [< L. monile, a 
necklace, + Gr. cHof, form.] Same as monili- 
form. 
monimentt, n. An obsolete variant of monu- 
ment. 
Monimia (mo-nim'i-a), n. [NL. (Du Petit- 
Thouars, 1804), suggested by its affinity to a ge- 
nus previously named Mithridatea ,<. li.Monima, 
< Gr. M.ovi[tr/, wife of Mithridates.] A genus of 
dicotyledonous apetalous plants, type of the 
natural order Monimiacete and of the tribe Mo- 
It is characterized by globose dioecious flowers, 
the staminate becoming split into four to six lobes, by nu- 
merous stamens, each bearing two glands at its base, and 
by the fruit, which consists of several very small one-seeded 
drupes inclosed within the enlarged perianth. Three spe- 
cies are known, natives of the Mascarene Islands. They are 
shrubs with rigid opposite leaves, and very small flowers, 
closely clustered in the axils. Fossil plants of this genus 
occur in the Tertiary formations of Europe and of Australia, 
and closely allied forms, called Monimiopsis, at the very 
base of that formation in France and in the Fort Union 
group on the Yellowstone river in Montana. 
Monimiaceae (mo-nim-i-a'se-e), n.pl. [NL. 
(Endlicher, 1836), < Monimia 4- -ace<e.] A natu- 
ral order of dicotyledonous plants of the apeta- 
lous series Micrembryece, typified by the genus 
Monimia. It is characterized by a globose or cup-shaped 
perianth, toothed or deeply divided at the border, by nu- 
merous stamens covering the perianth, and by having sev- 
eral or many distinct ovaries, each with a single ovule, 
a minute embryo, and copious fleshy albumen. The order 
includes about 22 genera and 150 species, natives of the 
warmer parts of South America, Asia, and the South Pa- 
cific islands. They are trees, shrubs, or rarely climbers, 
generally aromatic, with rigid opposite leaves and small 
flowers, in axillary or sometimes terminal clusters, which 
are shorter than the leaves. Several furnish wood for 
building and cabinet-work, or leaves used as a tonic or an 
aromatic seasoning. 
Monimiese (mon-i-ml'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. L. 
de Jussieu, 1809), < Monimia + -ee.] A tribe 
of plants of the natural order Monimiacere, of 
which Monimia is the type. It is characterized by 
having pendulous ovules, and anthers opening by a longi- 
tudinal flssure (instead of uplifting valves as in the other 
tribe of the order, Atherosperma:). It includes 8 genera, 
natives of tropical America, Australia, and adjacent isl- 
ands, with one genus in Africa. 
monimostylic (mon"i-mo-sti'lik), a. [< Gr. 
/idw/iof, lasting, stable, + arvfof, pillar.] Hav- 
ing the quadrate bone fixed, as a skull : corre- 
lated with autostylic and hyostylic. 
moniourt, n. A Middle English form of money er. 
moniplies (mon'i-pllz), n. sing, and pi. Same 
as manyplies. [Scotch.] 
monisht (mon'ish), v. t. [< ME. monysshen, 
monyschen, moneishen, also monesten, < OP. mo- 
nester, < ML. "monistare, for LL. monitare, freq. 
of L. monere, warn, admonish, akin to meminisse, 
remember. Cf. admonish, monition, etc.] To 
admonish; warn. 
Of father Anchises thee goast and grislye resemblaunce . . . 
In sleep mee monisheth, with visadge buggish he feareth. 
Stanihurst, jEneid, iv. 372. 
I write not to huite any, but to proffit som ; to accuse 
none, but to monish soch. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 65. 
monisher (mon'ish-er), n. [< ME. monyschere; 
< monish + -er 1 .'] An admonisher. Johnson. 
monishmentt (mpn'ish-ment), it. [< monish + 
-mcnt.'] Admonition. Siierwood. 
monism (mon'izm), n. [< Gr. /zoVof, single, + 
-ism.'] 1. Any system of thought which seeks 
to deduce all the varied phenomena of both the 
physial and spiritual worlds from a single prin- 
ciple; specifically, the metaphysical doctrine 
that there is but one substance, either mind 
(idealism) or matter (materialism), or a sub- 
stance that is neither mind nor matter, but is 
the substantial ground of both : opposed to du- 
alism. The term was applied by Wolf, its inventor, to 
the forms of the doctrine which were then known, namely, 
to the denial of the substantiality either of mind or of mat- 
ter ; but it is now extended to the doctrine that the dis- 
tinction between physical and mental facts is only phe- 
nomenal, and that in themselves they are not distinguished. 
Many special modifications of monistic speculation, espe- 
cially on its materialistic side, have accompanied the re- 
cent developments of physical science, particularly the 
doctrine of evolution. (See quotation from Haeckel under 
monistic.) Such doctrines as that energy, electricity, etc., 
are categories of substance different from matter are not 
taken account of by those who use the term, so that it is 
not easy to say whether they would be considered as de- 
nials of monism or not. Also called unitism and utnlari- 
anunn. 
Monism led a miserable existence in philosophical dic- 
tionaries, until, as a denotation of the Hegelian philosophy, 
it obtained a very wide use. It had again in some mea- 
sure fallen out of use when it was taken up by modern 
natural philosophy, and made the watchword of a doctrine 
which considers mind and matter neither as separated nor 
as derived from each other, but as standing in an essen- 
tial and inseparable connection. 
M. S. Phelps, tr. of Eucken's Fundamental Concepts, p. 114. 
If the essence of the materialist hypothesis be to start 
with matter on its lowest terms, and work it thence up into 
its highest, I did it no wrong in taking " homogeneous ex- 
tended solids "as its specified datum and its only one; so 
that it constituted a system of monism. 
J. Martineau, Materialism (1874), p. 108. 
2. Any theory or system which attempts to ex- 
plain many heterogeneous phenomena by a sin- 
gle principle. 
The solution offered by Psychophysical Monism, that 
functional brain-motion and feeling are two aspects of one 
and the same fact in nature this solution, when closely 
examined, turns out to be an altogether dualist ir and un- 
thinkable assertion. E. Montgomery, Mind, IX. 366. 
3. Inbwl., same a.smonogenesis(c). Hylozolstic 
monism. Same as hylozoism. idealistic monism, the 
monism which regards the single principle of the universe 
as mind or spirit, of which matter is the product. Mate- 
rialistic monism, the monism which regards the single 
principle as matter, of which mind or spirit is the product. 
monist (mon'ist), n. and a. [< mon(ism) + -ist.~\ 
I. n. An adherent of the metaphysical doctrine 
of monism in some one of its forms. 
The philosophical Unitarians or meniste reject the testi- 
mony of consciousness to the ultimate duality of the sub- 
ject and object in perception, but they arrive at the unity 
of these in different ways. Some admit the testimony of 
consciousness to the equipoise of the mental and material 
phenomena, and do not attempt to reduce either mind to 
matter, or matter to mind. They reject, however, the evi- 
dence of consciousness to their antithesis in existence, 
and maintain that mind and matter are only phenomenal 
modifications of the same common substance. This is the 
doctrine of absolute identity a doctrine of which the 
most illustrious representatives among recent philoso- 
phers are Schelling, Hegel, and Cousin. Others again deny 
the evidence of consciousness to the equipoise of subject 
and object as coordinate and original elements ; and, as the 
balance is inclined in favor of the one relative or the other, 
two opposite schemes of psychology are determined. If 
the subject be taken as the original and genetic, and the 
object be evolved from it as its product, the theory of ideal- 
ism is established. On the other hand, if the object be 
assumed as the original and genetic, and the subject be 
evolved from it as its product, the theory of materialism 
is established. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xvi. 
II. a. Same as monistic. 
monistic (mg-nis'tik), a. [< Gr. fiovof, single, 
+ -ist-ic.] Of or pertaining to monism; of the 
nature of monism. See monism and monixt. 
Idealism is monistic in its whole conception of the uni- 
verse. It claims to be a " one-substance " theory, although 
it should in consistency call itself a " no-substance " theory 
instead. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 103. 
The opponents of the doctrine of evolution are very fond 
of branding the monistic philosophy grounded upon it as 
"materialism," by confusing philosophical materialism 
with the wholly different and censurable moral material- 
ism. Strictly, however, our monism might, as accurately 
or as inaccurately, be called spiritualism as materialism. 
The real materialistic philosophy asserts that the vital phe- 
nomena of motion, like all other phenomena of motion, 
are effects or products of matter. The other, opposite ex- 
treme, spiritualistic philosophy, asserts, on the contrary, 
that matter is the product of motive fores, and that all ma- 
monitor 
terial forms are produced by free forces entirely indepen- 
dent of the matter itself. Thus, according to the mate- 
3579. rialistic conception of the universe, matter or substance 
precedes motion or active force. According to the spirit- 
ualistic conception of the universe, on the contrary, active 
force precedes matter. Both views are dualistic, and we 
hold both of them to be equally false. A contrast to both 
views is presented in the -monistic philosophy, which can 
as little believe in force without matter as in matter with- 
out force. Haeckel, Evol. of Man (trans.), II. 458. 
monistical (mo-nis'ti-kal), a. Same as monistic. 
monite (mo'nit), n. [< Mona (see def.) + -ite 2 .] 
A hydrous calcium phosphate occurring in 
loosely coherent massive forms of a snow- 
white color, found with monitito in the guano- 
formation of the islands of Mona and Mouita, 
West Indies. 
monition (mo-nish'on), n. [< ME. monicion, 
< OF. (F.) monition "= Pr. monition = Sp. mo- 
nicion = It. monizione, < L. monitio(n-), a re- 
minding, < monere, pp. monitus, remind, admon- 
ish: see monish.'] 1. Admonition; warning; 
instruction given by way of caution: as, the 
monitions of a friend. 
And after, by inonycion of the Archaungell Gabiyell, 
they made a Churche or oratory of our Lady. 
Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 34. 
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of 
friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. 
Sir R. L'Estrawje. 
2. Indication; intimation. 
We have no visible monition of the returns of any other 
periods, such as. we have of the day by successive light and 
darkness. Holder, On Time. 
3. (a) In civil and admiralty law, a summons or 
citation, especially used to commence a suit, 
or in a proceeding to confirm a title acquired 
under a judicial sale and to silence all adverse 
claims. General monttiuns are used in suits in rem, 
where the object is to bind all the world ; a special monition 
directs that specified persons be summoned and admon- 
ished. 
They appere in the yeld halle, at the day and houre 
limitted by the seid Baillies, vpon monicion to them yeven 
by eny seriaunt. Enyl&h Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 406. 
(6) In eccles. law, a formal notice, sent by a 
bishop to one of the subordinate clergy, to re- 
quire the amendment of some ecclesiastical 
offense; a monitory letter. Monitions are of two 
classes in specie, where the name of the offender is dis- 
tinctly mentioned, and in genere, where it is not. 
A bull of Innocent VIII followed by a severe mo- 
nition from Archbishop Morton to the abbot of St. Albans. 
Hallam, Const. Hist, I. 84, note. 
= 8yil. 1. Admonition, Monition, Reprehension, etc. See 
ad-monition. 
monitite (mo-ni'tit), w. [< Monita (see def.) + 
-ite'A] An acid calcium phosphate occurring 
in minute white or yellowish triclinic crystals, 
found in the guano-formation of the islands of 
Monita and Mona, West Indies. 
monitive (mon'i-tiv), a. [< L. as if *monitivnx, 
< monitus, pp. of monere, admonish.] Admoni- 
tory ; conveying admonition. Barrow, Works, 
II. xii. 
monitor (mon'i-tor), n. [= F. moniteur = Sp. 
monitor = It. monitors, < L. monitor, one who 
reminds or admonishes, < monere, pp. monitus, 
remind, admonish: see monish.] 1. One who 
warns of faults or informs of duty ; an admon- 
isher ; one who gives advice and instruction by 
way of reproof or caution ; an admonisher. 
You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon. 
2. A senior pupil in a school appointed to in- 
struct and look afterajunior division or class; 
a pupil appointed to superintend other pupils; 
in some American colleges, a student appointed 
to keep a record of the attendance of the other 
students upon certain exercises, as morning 
prayers. 3f. A constable or officer of the law. 
If they will pay what they owe, . . . they will save me 
the trouble of sending and themselves of paying a Moni- 
tor. Adv't in Boston Gazette, September, 1767. 
4f. A backboard. 
Posterity will ask ... 
What was a monitor in George's days. 
A monitor is wood-plank shaven thin ; 
We wear it at our backs, . . . 
But, thus admonish'd, we can walk erect. 
Cou-per, Task, ii. 530. 
5. [cap.] In lierpet., the typical genus of Moni- 
toridae, so called because one of the species was 
fabled to admonish man of the presence of the 
crocodile of the Nile. Also called Varanws. 
6. A lizard of the genus Monitor or family Mo- 
nitoridce. See cut ; under ffydrosaunts. 7. A 
heavily armored iron-clad steam-vessel with 
a very low free-board, of a type invented by 
Ericsson, carrying on deck one or more revolv- 
ing turrets, each containing one or more great 
guns, and designed to combine the maximum 
