censorian

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Etymology

From censor +‎ -ian.

Adjective

censorian (comparative more censorian, superlative most censorian)

  1. Archaic form of censorial.
    • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 1902, page 62:
      And as the chancery had the Pretorian power for equity; so the star-chamber had the Censorian power for offences under the degree of capital.

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