Helen Fenton

Censor: Definition and part of speech

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Censor

  1. n. A critic; a reviewer.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. One given to fault-finding; a censurer.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Censorial: Definition and part of speech

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Censorial

  1. a. Full of censure; censorious.
  2. a. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Censorious: Definition and part of speech

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Censorious

  1. a. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.
  2. a. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Censurable: Definition and part of speech

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Censurable

  1. a. Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Censure: Definition and part of speech

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Censure

  1. n. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
  2. n. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
  3. n. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.
  4. v. i. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.