censor
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[edit] English
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- censour (obsolete)
[edit] Etymology
From Latin cēnsor, from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).
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[edit] Noun
censor (plural censors)
- (history) 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 is an even stricter censor for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been for 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
- (acronym) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
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Roman magistrate
official responsible for removal of objectionable or sensitive content
one who condemns or censors
psychology: hypothetical subconscious agency
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[edit] 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
[edit] Translations
to review in order to remove objectionable content
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to remove objectionable content
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[edit] See also
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- censor in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- censor in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Latin
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censor m. (plural censors, diminutive censortje)
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[edit] Latin
[edit] Noun
censor (genitive censōris); m, third declension
- A Roman collegial state magistrate; one of two officials officially sworn to duty taking a census of the Romans, later evolved into a high moral office.
- A provincial magistrate with similar duties.
- A critic, especially a severe one of morals and society.
[edit] Inflection
| Number | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | censor | censōrēs |
| genitive | censōris | censōrum |
| dative | censōrī | censōribus |
| accusative | censōrem | censōrēs |
| ablative | censōre | censōribus |
| vocative | censor | censōrēs |
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- Russian: це́нзор (cénzor)
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[edit] Adjective
censor m. and f. (plural censores)
[edit] Noun
censor m. (plural censores)
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[edit] Noun
censor c.
- (classical studies) censor; a Roman census administrator
- censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
[edit] Declension
Declension of censor
| singular | plural | |||
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| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | censor | censorn | censorer | censorerna |
| genitive | censors | censorns | censorers | censorernas |
