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

"You press me closely," with an amused scrutiny of the captain's monitorial face.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 by Various

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

Such, little though they cared for their much vaunted hero-martyr, were delighted with any policy which presented them with an opportunity of pursuing a career of misdemeanour under monitorial authority.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian