Definitions
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.
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- 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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Examples
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To most men the production, twice a week, of a newspaper so wide in scope as the _Covent Garden Journal_ (for its columns included the news of the day, as well as the manifold 'censorial' energies of _Sir Alexander_) would have been occupation enough; especially with a "constitution now greatly impaired and enfeebled," and when "labouring under attacks of the gout, which were, of course, severer than ever."
Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden
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To most men the production, twice a week, of a newspaper so wide in scope as the Covent Garden Journal (for its columns included the news of the day, as well as the manifold 'censorial' energies of Sir Alexander) would have been occupation enough; especially with a
Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909
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It was a good day for the First Amendment when the prosecutor decided to apply the law to their censorial conduct.
Alan Dershowitz: Conviction of the "Irvine Ten" is Constitutionally Sound Alan Dershowitz 2011
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But the letter goes much further and defends -- indeed praises -- the censorial actions those students, while condemning the actions of other students who wanted to hear the speaker.
Alan Dershowitz: Civil Libertarians and Academics Who Support Censors Alan Dershowitz 2011
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A prosecutor has the obligation to protect the First Amendment, especially if the university has imposed discipline that is inadequate to assure that censorial conduct will be deterred.
Alan Dershowitz: Conviction of the "Irvine Ten" is Constitutionally Sound Alan Dershowitz 2011
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It was a good day for the First Amendment when the prosecutor decided to apply the law to their censorial conduct.
Alan Dershowitz: Conviction of the "Irvine Ten" is Constitutionally Sound Alan Dershowitz 2011
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Or, as in the case of the post about [Jamaican dub poet] Mutabaruka, I wielded censorial license and locked off one respondent who was extremely aggressive and disagreeable.
Global Voices in English » Talking to Indian-Jamaican writer and blogger Annie Paul 2009
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But the letter goes much further and defends -- indeed praises -- the censorial actions those students, while condemning the actions of other students who wanted to hear the speaker.
Alan Dershowitz: Civil Libertarians and Academics Who Support Censors Alan Dershowitz 2011
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Efforts to clamp down on discomfiting material result not in frustrated acquiescence but in renewed assaults on the self-importance that lies behind knee-jerk censorial action.
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Perhaps if enough did so, the publishers might be forced to re-think their current censorial approach.
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