Censorial

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals: as, the censorial office in ancient Rome.
  • Full of censure; censorious; severe: as, “censorial declamation,”
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.
  • adjective. Full of censure; censorious.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. relating to a censor
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions
  • Word Usage
    "To most men the production, twice a week, of a newspaper so wide in scope as the _Covent Garden Journal_ (for its columns included the news of the day, as well as the manifold 'censorial' energies of _Sir Alexander_) would have been occupation enough; especially with a "constitution now greatly impaired and enfeebled," and when "labouring under attacks of the gout, which were, of course, severer than ever.""
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning