Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to an inspector; relating to inspectors.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to an inspector or to inspection.

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Examples

  • I know that colorless tone of the inspectorial voice.

    The Woman in Black 1915

  • After that, any trace of soreness in the inspectorial breast was completely obliterated.

    The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Louis Tracy 1895

  • For Marcelle would deposit the Doherty letter in Eileen's compartment in the curtained row of little niches -- where one kept one's work-bag, atlas, and other educational reserves -- or Eileen would slip the reply into Marcelle's, and there it would lie, exposed to inspectorial ransacking, till such times as Eileen or Marcelle could transfer it to her bosom.

    The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes Israel Zangwill 1895

  • Borrow for being a missionary, and partly by a touch of inspectorial-professorial [222] habit in him which is frequently apparent and decidedly curious.

    A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

  • "_The subanhypaposupernal anastomoses of peritomic diacellurite in the encephalo digital region of the distinguished individual of whose symptomatic phœnomena we had the melancholy honour (subsequently to a preliminary diagnostic inspection) of making an inspectorial diagnosis, presenting the interexclusively quadrilateral and antinomian diathesis known as Bumpsterhausen's blue follicles, we proceeded_" --

    The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847

  • This in itself calls into question the robustness and appropriateness of that inspectorial regime.

    Blogposts | guardian.co.uk Karen Broadhurst Sue White 2008

  • And this is the beginning thereof — “The subanhypaposupernal anastomoses of peritomic diacellurite in the encephalo digital region of the distinguished individual of whose symptomatic phoenomena we had the melancholy honour (subsequently to a preliminary diagnostic inspection) of making an inspectorial diagnosis, presenting the interexclusively quadrilateral and antinomian diathesis known as

    The Water Babies 2007

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