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English
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Adjective
censorial (comparative more censorial, superlative most censorial)
- Relating to a censor.
- 1749, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, Letters to His Son
- Nothing less than the relation between you and me can possibly authorize that freedom; but fortunately for you, my parental rights, joined to my censorial powers, give it me in its fullest extent, and my concern for you will make me exert it.
- 1888, Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887
- The printing department has no censorial powers. It is bound to print all that is offered it, ...
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French
Adjective
censorial (feminine censoriale, masculine plural censoriaux, feminine plural censoriales)
- censorial
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