Monition

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

2. Information; indication; notice; advice. We have no visible monition of ... other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.

3. A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

4. An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law. Shipley.