a. [f. L. censōri-us of or pertaining to the CENSOR + -AL: so in F.]

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  1.  Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a censor (see CENSOR 1, 2).

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1772.  Junius Lett., Pref. While this censorial power is maintained.

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1791.  Burke, App. Whigs, Wks. 1842, I. 525. The censorial inspection of the publick eye.

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1810.  Bentham, Packing (1821), 265. Of a censorial tribunal so constituted.

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1865.  Merivale, Rom. Emp., VIII. lxvii. 301. The fathers listened with censorial gravity.

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1880.  Muirhead, Gaius, II. § 226, note. A citizen, whose fortune was estimated in the censorial register at 100,000 asses.

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  † 2.  Of persons: Like a censor; censorious. Obs.

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1592.  Nashe, Str. Newes, C iij. If in his Epistle he had not been so arrogantly censoriall. Ibid. (1596), Saffron Walden, Ep. Ded. The … censoriall animaduertiser of vagrant moustachios.

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