monitorial

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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

Among civilized races and those wise in philosophy dreams play a very important part, and are classified as monitorial, prophetic, etc., etc.

From The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology by Buck, J. D. (Jirah Dewey)

I have received your letter—your moral lecture rather; and be assured, my dear, your monitorial lessons and advice shall be attended to.

From The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton by Foster, Hannah Webster

“I know that, and I give you leave—there!” said Loman, with all the monitorial dignity he could assume.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines

Had the monitorial system existed, that contagion could have been checked at once; but, as it was, brute force the unlimited authority.

From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)