1. of, relating to, or constituting a category or categories
Usage: formal; often used in academic or philosophical contexts
2. in linguistics and grammar, relating to the grammatical categories or parts of speech that words belong to
Usage: technical; linguistics

Examples

• The researcher made a categorial distinction between the two types of behavior.
• In categorial grammar, words are assigned to specific syntactic categories.
• The study used a categorial approach to organize the data into distinct groups.
• Categorial thinking helps us understand how concepts are organized in the mind.
• The philosopher argued for a categorial framework to explain human experience.