Definitions for custodial

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custodial cus·to·di·al

Spelling: [kuh-stoh-dee-uh l]

IPA: /kʌˈstoʊ di əl/

Custodial is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 641 anagrams from letters in custodial (acdilostu).

Definitions for custodial

noun

1. a container or receptacle for something sacred, as the Host.

adjective

1. of or relating to custody.
2. of, relating to, or appropriate to a custodian:
3. responsible for or providing protective supervision and guardianship rather than seeking to improve or cure:

Origin of custodial

1765-75; Latin custōdi(a) custody + -al¹

Examples for custodial

North Dakota requires two-parent notification and custodial parent consent for minors, as well as a 24-hour waiting period.

A certain sum would also be received from the families of some of the inmates of the training schools and custodial institutions.

Then took the custodial; and showed the patient the Corpus Domini within.

Other measures recommended were the custodial care of the feeble-minded, and State control of the use of alcohol.

The increase and classification of the custodial population here contemplated is a problem for administrative charity.

While I'm out there, get word to all custodial and operating personnel that they will be permitted to leave tonight.

Step by step, the penal and custodial apparatus of the United States has become larger, more belligerent, and more brazen.

This prophylactic rule requires suppression of any custodial statement made before the warnings are given.