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censorial, a.|sɛnˈsɔərɪəl|
[f. L. censōri-us of or pertaining to the censor + -al1: so in F.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a censor (see censor 1, 2).
1772Junius Lett. Pref., While this censorial power is maintained. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. 1842 I. 525 The censorial inspection of the publick eye. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 265. 1865 Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxvii. 301 The father listened with censorial gravity. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §226 note, A citizen, whose fortune was estimated in the censorial register at 100,000 asses.
2. Of persons: Like a censor; censorious.
1592Nashe Str. Newes C iij, If in his Epistle he had not been so arrogantly censoriall. 1596― Saffron Walden Ep. Ded., The..censoriall animaduertiser of vagrant moustachios. 1866Bp. Gott Lett. (1918) 145 The very nature of a creed is personal, never censorial of others. |