Censorian

adj, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A censorious person.

    "And when the father or mother dies that has lived a life so good and pure that it sweetens even the life of the censorians into praise, one likes to think that this worrying, poor uneven life is not all, but that really they have entered into a great rest and the shelter of a mighty friendship […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    Archaic form of censorial. alt-of, archaic

    "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."

Synonyms

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censor

Example

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"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."

Etymology

From censor + -ian.

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