censorian
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a word derived from
censor.
censornounan official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
Example Sentences
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The censorian judgments, although arbitrary and as a rule spontaneous, were sometimes elicited by prosecution: and an accuser was found to bring the conduct of Gracchus formally before the notice of the magistrates.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
The author does not sufficiently distinguish between the censorian initiative and the operation of the law.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
But I generally blame, to exert all the vigour of my censorian power, and keep my subjects in awe.
From Dialogues of the Dead by Henry Morley