admonitory

adj

Etymology: From Latin admonitōrium (“admonition, reminder”).

1. Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise.

   “He wagged an admonitory finger at the culprit.”

   “Wherefore the naturall measure wherby to iudge our doings, is the sentence of reason, determining and setting downe what is good to be done. Which sentence is either mandatory, shewing what must be done; or else permissiue, declaring onely what may be done; or thirdly admonitorie, opening what is the most conuenient for vs to doe.”