censorian
English
Adjective
censorian (comparative more censorian, superlative most censorian)
- 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.
- 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press (1902), page 62:
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(See the entry for censorian in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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