These persons combined, in part at least, the free censorial speech of Antisthenes with the subtlety of Eukleides.
It deserves notice that in the restrictive or censorial law (proposed by Sophokles, and enacted by the Athenians in B.
It may be more advisable to leave such matters to the enlightened discretion of a judge, awed by a censorial House of Commons.
Games of hazard, in which the stake was no longer as in the Italian dice-playing a trifle, became common, and as early as 639 a censorial edict was issued against them.
But, to tell you the plain truth, I am of opinion that my censorial power will not be useless to you, nor a sinecure to me.
So little did censorial animadversion avail, so as to prevent them from seeking a regulator of their affairs from a family unmeritedly censured, as soon as the condition of the state stood in need of genuine merit.
The plenitude of this office belongs to the Church, with this difference, that the censorial power of the ancients was purely civil, while that of the Church is a religious power, which has its origin and sanction in divine authority.
The religion of Greece and Rome neither did, nor could, exercise this censorial power over morals.
As this question is intimately connected with the point which I have just touched upon, in relation to the existence of the censorial authority, I shall explain myself at some length.
This duty was performed by the duovirs with quinquennial power, also often called censorial power.
He also erects a Court of Criticism in which, by virtue of his "high Censorial Office," he administers justice in "all matters in the Republic of Literature.
By thus adopting the title of "Censor of Great Britain" the editor of the Jacobites Journal preserves his identity with that censorial Champion who nine years before had essayed to keep rogues in fear of his Hercules' club.
He prohibits all poetical composition, except under his own censorial supervision.
Even in the Republic, Plato had banished poets, or had at least forbidden them to follow the free inspirations of the Muse, and had subjected them to censorial controul.
While denouncing much of the current theological poetry, he assumes a censorial authority, in his joint character of Lykurgus and Sokrates,[57] to dictate what sort of poetical compositions shall be tolerated among his Guardians.
This discipline, prescribed in all its details by the lawgiver, includes a modicum of literary teaching equal to all; small in quantity, and rigorously sifted as to quality, through the censorial sieve.
Nevertheless this censorial prerogative was of so immense importance, that in virtue of it the censorship, originally a subordinate magistracy, became in rank and consideration the first of all.
Hyd: Well Sir, Preliminaries being Settled I will now individually introduce, to your censorial Highness, the Genii who are to Sit upon you.
Abolition of theCensorial Supervision of the Senate 22.
In a period when these principles are annihilated, the censorial jurisdiction must either sink into empty pageantry, or be converted into a partial instrument of vexatious oppression.
The emperor Gallienus, who had long supported with impatience the censorial severity of his father and colleague, received the intelligence of his misfortunes with secret pleasure and avowed indifference.
In the discharge of its censorial powers, the Censor Yuan may, in accordance with law, interrogate the various Yuan, Ministries and Commissions.
The Censor Yuan is the highest organ through which the Central Government exercises its censorial powers.
This disqualification of the common informer should be extended to the initiation of all proceedings of a censorialcharacter against theatres.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.
As many hours will elapse before the proof sheets are returned with censorial corrections, Don Javier proposes a saunter through the town.
That stall in the centre of the pit is occupied by the editor of the Diario, a Cuban daily paper, whose politics and local information are strongly diluted by censorial ink, and which is, therefore, unintelligible and devoid of interest.
More than half of this interesting news has been already marked out by the censor's red pencil, and the bewildered sub looks high and low for material wherewith to replenish the censorial gaps.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "censorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
