CENSORIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does censorial mean? 

• CENSORIAL (adjective)
  The adjective CENSORIAL has 1 sense:

1. belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions

  Familiarity information: CENSORIAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENSORIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

censor (a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable)

Derivation:

censor (a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable)

censor (someone who censures or condemns)