censual

English

Etymology

From Latin censualis, from census.

Adjective

censual (not comparable)

1. Relating to, or containing, a census.
   • 1643, Sir Richard Baker, A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Romans Government unto the Raigne of our Soueraigne Lord King Charles:

     Many other taxations he made, but laft of all in the eighteenth year of his reign; by the advife of Roger Earl of Hentford, he caused the whole Realm to be described in a Censual Roll, (whereof he took a Precedent from King Alfred) fo as there was not one Hyde of Land' but both the yearly rent, and the owner thereof was thereinafter down.

   • 1695, William Temple, An Introduction to the History of England, London: […] Richard Simpson […], and Ralph Simpson […], →OCLC, page 255:

     To this End he ſent Comiſſioners into all the ſeveral Counties of the vvhole Realm, vvho took an exact Survey, and deſcrib'd in a Cenſual Roll or Book, all the Lands, Titles, and Tenures throughout the vvhole Kingdom.

   • 1946, The Labour Gazette‎^[1], Canada. Dept. of Labour:

     The financial provisions of the Act of 1940 were based on the statistics of employment and unemployment and of other idle time, all causes, compiled by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics from the censual data of 1921 and 1931

   • 1995 April, Carlos Alberto Abaleron, “Marginal Urban Space and Unsatisfied Basic Needs”, in Environment and Urbanization, volume 7, number 1:

     The reconstruction of the censual household of 1991 consisted in considering the house as a synonym of the censual household as in the 1980 census.

References

• “censual”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “censual”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lucenas, auncels, auncles, lacunes, launces, unlaces, unscale

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /θenˈswal/ [θẽnˈswal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /senˈswal/ [sẽnˈswal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: cen‧sual

Adjective

censual m or f (masculine and feminine plural censuales)

1. censual

Further reading

• “censual”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28