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Webster 1913 Edition
Censor
Cen′sor
,Noun.
[L.
censor
, fr. censere
to value, tax.] 1.
(Antiq.)
One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct.
2.
One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; – an official in some European countries.
3.
One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
Nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from
censors
who have no inclination to approve. Rambler.
4.
A critic; a reviewer.
Received with caution by the
censors
of the press. W. Irving.
Webster 1828 Edition
Censor
CENSOR
,Noun.
1.
An officer, in ancient Rome, whose business was to register the effects of the citizens, to impose taxes according to the property which each man possessed, and to inspect the manners of the citizens, with power to censure vice and immorality, by inflicting a public mark of ignominy on the offender.2.
One who is empowered to examine all manuscripts and books, before they are committed to the press, and to see that they contain nothing heretical or immoral.3.
One who is given to censure.Definition 2024
censor
censor
English
Alternative forms
- censour (obsolete)
Noun
censor (plural censors)
- (historical) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
- The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
- The headmaster was an even stricter censor of his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been of his own when the country was occupied.
- One who censures or condemns
- (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
Synonyms
Related terms
Translations
Roman magistrate
official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
one who condemns or censors
psychology: hypothetical subconscious agency
Verb
censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)
- (transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- (transitive) To remove objectionable content
- Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance
Synonyms
- (remove objectionable material): bowdlerize
Translations
to review in order to remove objectionable content
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to remove objectionable content
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See also
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From cēnseō (“I assess, value, judge, tax, etc.”) + -sor (agentive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈken.sor/, [ˈkẽː.sɔr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃen.sor/
Noun
censor m (genitive censōris); third declension
- censor
- provincial magistrate with similar duties.
- a critic, especially a severe one of morals and society
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | censor | censōrēs |
| genitive | censōris | censōrum |
| dative | censōrī | censōribus |
| accusative | censōrem | censōrēs |
| ablative | censōre | censōribus |
| vocative | censor | censōrēs |
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Descendants
References
- censor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- censor in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CENSOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “censor”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
- the censors hold a census of the people: censores censent populum
- censor in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- censor in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Old Latin
Noun
censōr m
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Latin: censor
Portuguese
Noun
censor m (plural censores, feminine censora, feminine plural censoras)
- (historical) censor (Roman magistrate)
- censor (official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content)
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin censor, censoris.
Adjective
censor m (feminine singular censora, masculine plural censores, feminine plural censoras)
Noun
censor m (plural censores, feminine censora)
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Swedish
Noun
censor c
- (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
- censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
Declension
Declension of censor
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | censor | censorn | censorer | censorerna |
| genitive | censors | censorns | censorers | censorernas |