monitorial
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- monitorially adverb
Etymology
Origin of monitorial
Example Sentences
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In eighteenth-century America, one-room schoolhouses employed the monitorial method, in which older students evaluated the recitations of younger ones.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 8, 2014
Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been effectually checked; but, as it was, brute force had unlimited authority.
From Eric, or Little by Little by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
He had not been seen since his escape from the monitorial fangs after morning school.
From The Willoughby Captains by Reed, Talbot Baines
As the numbers increased he established a monitorial system, by which many of the lesser breaches of discipline were dealt with by the boys themselves.
From A History of Giggleswick School From its Foundation, 1499 to 1912 by Bell, Edward Allen
This action on the part of the Fifth, therefore, was as good as a usurpation of monitorial rights, and that the Sixth were not disposed to stand.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines
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