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Definition of Censorial
1. Adjective. Belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions.
Definition of Censorial
1. a. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
Definition of Censorial
1. Adjective. relating to a censor ¹
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Definition of Censorial
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Censorial
Literary usage of Censorial
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Rome by Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"What value was attached by the people and senate to a censorial reprimand was
seen when Cato, as censor, expelled Lucius Flaminius from the senate because ..."
2. The history of Rome by Theodor Mommsen, William Purdie Dickson, Joseph Anton F. Wilhelm Ihne (1882)
"Nevertheless, he was in the following year elected tribune of the people, and
thus the censorial sentence was solemnly set aside by ..."
3. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1823)
"Jurisprudence is a fictitious entity: nor can any meaning be found for the word,
but by censorial. p}acing jt m company with some word that shall be ..."
4. The Venetian Printing Press: An Historical Study Based Upon Documents for by Horatio Forbes Brown (1891)
"... 1526-— Copyright and workmanship, 1533 and 1537 — Decline of the art and
reasons for this — censorial board, 1 544 — Literary property, ..."
5. State Government in the United States by Arthur Norman Holcombe (1916)
"2 THE censorial SYSTEM In Pennsylvania the framers of the original constitution
of 1776 did not expressly affirm their belief in the doctrine of the ..."
6. History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient by William Hickling Prescott (1882)
"This censorial power was of some moment, at least with regard to the historical
department, where the wilful perversion of truth was made a capital offence ..."
7. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Guizot (François), Léopold Delisle (1853)
"... and renewed at the sacred font, he inseparably attached himself to Peter.1 verted;
he punished, with his censorial power, Ananias and his wife Sapphira, ..."
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