censorial
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- adjective
- /sɛnˈsɔrɪəl/
- Formal
- His censorial authority allowed him to approve or deny the publication of sensitive information.
Examples
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Indeed, the comedy of these many labels and their juxtaposition derives precisely from their opacity as living relics of a national censorial imagination.
Academic text (2014) -
The government's censorial policies restrict freedom of speech.
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But the original myth is displaced in fiction, and in children's fiction, censorial filters may be imposed.
Academic text (2001) -
Del Arno ran into similar censorial trouble with Verbena tragica.
Academic text (1998) -
To suggest that they are to be stopped from presenting such arguments seems gratuitously censorial rather than wise, especially in a country as pluralistic as the United States, where it is simply that members of a particular religion could ever capture national political institutions.
Academic text (1997) -
I would have to wait several years to settle once and for all the question of the papaya, to experience for myself the unexpected censorial correspondences between the actual and the metaphoric fruit, but I didn't have to wait so long for the confession that resulted in my self-imposed excommunication from Rome.
Fiction book (1994) -
Although he insisted on the importance of distinguishing between expository jurisprudence (about what the law is) and censorial jurisprudence (about what it ought to be), Bentham's science of legislation was first and foremost a critique and a program of reform of both the common law and the English constitution.
Academic text (2018) -
She was concerned about the censorial nature of the new laws affecting the media.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Censorial comes from censor, which goes back to the Latin censere meaning 'to judge' or 'to assess'. In ancient Rome a censor was an official who checked people's behaviour and public records, so censorial describes the power or job of judging or controlling what people can say or publish.