censusses

English

Noun

censusses

1. plural of census
   • 1803, Richard Warner, The English Diatessaron; Or, the History of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Bath: R. Cruttwell, page 12:

     All the world ſhould be taxed.] In the margin of the Engliſh tranſlation it is enrolled, and this is the true meaning of the original Greek word. It is probable, that the decree was to take an account (by way of regiſter) of the name, age, condition, family, and ſubſtance of each perſon enrolled. So the ſame Greek word is uſed for enrollments by Joſephus in Antiq. xii. 2, 3; and ſo it ſeems to be uſed by him in Antiq. xviii 1. 1. […] Auguſtus had in his time two or three of theſe cenſuſſes or enrollments, as Tacitus and others relate.

   • 1987, Historical Social Research, page 6:

     One of the tedious, though normal tasks of each study of the long-term change of employment structures is the standardization of the classification of occupations and fields of activity. In our case we had to find the best standardization of the highly different occupational groupings through 7 censusses between 1895 and 1970.

   • 1995, Netherlands Journal of Zoology, volume 45, page 390:

     For 14 individuals, eight censusses per daily period were performed within two weeks (32 censusses per individual), each time recording the coordinates of location. The territories of the individuals were defined as the area defended successfully against conspecifics by agonistic and/or non-agonistic behaviour, as described by Wickler (1969) and Nelissen (1976). The locations of the territories were determined from censussing; their sizes were estimated by behavioural observations.

Verb

censusses

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of census