censorian

From censor +‎ -ian.

censorian (comparative more censorian, superlative most censorian)

1. Archaic form of censorial.
   • 1622, Francis Bacon, Bacon's History of the Reign of King Henry VII, Cambridge University Press, published 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.

censorian (plural censorians)

1. A censorious person.
   • 1885, Saints Herald, volume 32, page 194:

     And when the father or mother dies that has lived a life so good and pure that it sweetens even the life of the censorians into praise, one likes to think that this worrying, poor uneven life is not all, but that really they have entered into a great rest and the shelter of a mighty friendship […]

• “censorian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Neoricans, canonries, carnosine