单词 | censorial |
释义 | censorialadj. 1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a censor (see censor n. 1, 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [adjective] > relating to a censor censorian1598 censorial1772 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] > relating or subject to censorship censorial1772 censorable1906 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [adjective] > relating to emendation > removal of objectionable passages expurgatorious1641 expurgatory1646 censorial1772 expurgatorial1803 1772 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra I. Pref. p. xv While this censorial power is maintained. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 129 The censorial inspection of the public eye. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 265. 1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxvii. 301 The father listened with censorial gravity. 1880 J. Muirhead in tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 154 (note) A citizen, whose fortune was estimated in the censorial register at 100,000 asses. 2. Of persons: Like a censor; censorious. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [adjective] > censuring or condemning censorious1536 judging1546 controlling1564 condemnatory1570 convictory1576 censorical1589 censorial1592 censurious1604 censuringa1616 condemning1642 reprobating1645 outbraiding1655 twitting1655 reprobatory1657 perstrictive1659 damnatory1682 reprobative1785 1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes C iij If in his Epistle he had not been so arrogantly censoriall. 1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden Ep. Ded. sig. A2 (heading) The..censoriall animaduertiser of vagrant moustachios. 1866 J. Gott Lett. 20 Mar. (1918) 145 The very nature of a creed is personal, never censorial of others. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1592 |
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