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from The Century Dictionary.

  • 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,”

from 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective relating to a censor

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions

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