Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word CENSORATE
CENSORATE
Definitions of CENSORATE
- (historical) A high-level supervisory agency in ancient China, monitoring administrators to prevent corruption and malfeasance.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using CENSORATE in a Sentence
- The emperor sought order through purges in the Censorate and military service reforms in 1428, but these didn't fully address inefficiencies and low morale among hereditary soldiers.
- Hucker saw the censorate as a third branch of government, on equal footing with the civil and military bureaucracies, beholden to the traditional state Confucian orthodoxy moreso than to any other component of the state apparatus.
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