Censor
['sensə] or ['sɛnsɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable.
(noun.) someone who censures or condemns.
(verb.) subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; 'This magazine is censored by the government'.
Checked by Aron--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(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.
(n.) One given to fault-finding; a censurer.
(n.) A critic; a reviewer.
Editor: Nicolas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Inspector, critic.[2]. Censurer, caviller.
Checked by Brits
Definition
n. in ancient Rome an officer who kept account of the property of the citizens imposed taxes and watched over their morals: an officer who examines books or newspapers before they are printed: one who censures or blames.—adjs. Censō′rial belonging to a censor or to the correction of public morals; Censō′rious expressing censure: fault-finding—also Censō′rian.—adv. Censō′riously.—ns. Censō′riousness; Cen′sorship office of censor: time during which he holds office.—Censorship of the press a regulation of certain governments by which books and newspapers must be examined by officers whose approval is necessary to their publication.
Typed by Belinda
Examples
- The more we censor it, the more likely it is to appear disguised, to fool us subtly and perhaps dangerously. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Abuse and disuse characterize the older view of the state: guardian and censor it has been, provider but grudgingly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Don't write anything that will bother the censor. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- You didn't know Jack had become our social censor? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But the vision of the new statecraft in centering politics upon human interests becomes a creator of opportunities instead of a censor of morals, and deserves a fresh and heightened regard. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He was so fortunate as to be made censor, which gave him great power over the private lives of public people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was no way to think; but who censored his thinking? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Appius Claudius, one of the first of the censors to exercise it, enrolled freedmen in the tribes and called sons of freedmen to the Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Raffles