directorial, a.
(dɪ-, daɪrɛkˈtɔərɪəl)
[f. L. dīrectōri-us (f. *dīrectōr-em director) + -al1.]
1. a. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a director, or of direction or authoritative guidance.
| 1770 W. Guthrie Geogr. Gram., Germ. (T.), The emperour's power in the collective body, or the diet, is not directorial, but executive. 1839 G. S. Faber Husenbeth's Professed Refut. 37 note, Directorial books..with which I conclude Mr. Husenbeth, as a zealous Romish Priest, to be not altogether unacquainted. |
b. spec. Of or pertaining to directors or the direction of films, etc.
| 1921 Moving Picture Stories 5 Aug. 26/3 Lloyd Ingraham is taking a month's vacation at the estate of David Kirkland, his directorial colleague. 1937 Times 25 Oct. 12/3 The directorial work was done by Mr. Clarence Brown. 1963 Listener 28 Feb. 392/3 BBC television has recently been..holding on to the directorial talent it has itself developed and at the same time luring in the best directors from independent television. |
2. Of or pertaining to a body of directors; spec. belonging to the French Directory (see directory n. 6).
| 1797 Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 342 This object was to be weighed against the directorial conquests. 1804 Ann. Rev. II. 93/2 The national institute was established under the directorial government. 1818 Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. ix. 706 Copies of all proceedings of Directorial and Proprietary Courts. 1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. v. 69 The Directorial Constitution of 1795 gave one elector for every two hundred of the Primary Assembly. 1886 Law Times LXXX. 150/2 He brought..charges of misfeasance in their directorial duties against the two directors. |
Hence direcˈtorially adv., in a directorial manner; according to the principles of the French Directory.
| 1839 Fraser's Mag. XIX. 127 He lived..with kings, monarchically;..with the nobility, aristocratically;..with the convention, conventionally; with the directory directorially. |