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Censorian

Cen-so′ri-an

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Adj.
Censorial.
[R.]
Bacon.

Definition 2024


censorian

censorian

English

Adjective

censorian (comparative more censorian, superlative most censorian)

  1. Alternative form of censorial
    • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (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.