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Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.

Of or pertaining to a century; as, a centurial sermon. [R.]

Same as Cerial. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to the cerris. Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden.

Like or pertaining to the Clamatores.

Of or pertaining to the colleterium of insects. R. Owen.

Consisting of the same material. [Obs.] Bacon.

Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.

Of or pertaining to a commissary.

Relating to compromise. [R.] Chalmers.

Relating to a compurgator or to compurgation. "Their compurgatorial oath." Milman.

Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.

A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell- shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves.

Of or pertaining to the papal curia; as, the curial etiquette of the Vatican. -- n.

The wiew or doctrins of the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Gladstone.

One who belongs to the ultramontane party in the Latin Church. Shipley.

Pertaining to a court.

The privileges, prerogatives, or retinue of a court. [Obs.] Bacon.

Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.

Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.