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Directorial adj.

Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.

Pertaining to: director or directory; specifically, relating to the Directory of France under the first republic. See Directory, 3. "Whoever goes to the directorial presence under this passport."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... excess of 100,000 were given each two votes. All others retained a right to but one. The executive authority of the Confederation was vested by turns in the six cantons of Bern, Freiburg, Lucerne, Zuerich, Basel and Solothurn, the "directorial" canton being known as the Vorort, and its chief magistrate as the Landammann, of the Confederation. The principle of centralization was in large part abandoned; but the equality of civil rights which the French ...

— The Governments of Europe • Frederic Austin Ogg

... believed, the discussion was likely to go on interminably. Several times our young journalist had thought he would simply make off without word said, excusing himself on the score of a misunderstanding when eight hundred odd miles lay between him and the directorial thunders. But he was too scrupulous a journalist, too professionally honest to follow the ...

— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre