And Nobly nam'd, ſo twice beingCenſor, / Was his great Anceſtor.
1685, William Howel[l], “The History of the Reformation of Religion byConstantine”, inAn Institution of General History, or The History of Ecclesiastical Affairs of the World.[…], London:[…] Miles Flesher,→OCLC, paragraph 17,page 7:
Neither [theSegetes Lustrantur and theOves Lustrantur] are in this place, to be underſtood theLuſtra, which were wont to be Celebrated atRome by theCenſors, after theCenſus of Citizens was made by a Sacrifice of theSuovetaurilia; for they had ceaſed long ago, as appeareth by whatCenſorinus writeth in his Bookde Die Natali; at which time theOffice ofCenſors also ceaſed, which ſome endeavoured, though in vain, to re-eſtabliſh.
1696,Basil Kennett, “Of the Censors”, inRomæ Antiquæ Notitia: Or, The Antiquities of Rome.[…], London:[…] A. Swall and T. Child,[…],→OCLC, part II, book III (Of the Civil Government of the Romans),pages110–111:
[page 110][Justus]Lipſius divides the Duty of theCenſors into two Heads; the Survey of the People, and the Cenſure of Manners.[…] With respect to the latter part of their Office, they had the power to puniſh an Immorality in any Perſon, of what Order ſoever.[…] [page 111] 'Tis very remarkable, that if one of theCenſors died, no body was ſubſtituted in his room 'till the nextLuſtrum, and his Partner was oblig'd to quit his Office; becauſe the Death of aCenſor happen'd juſt before the ſacking ofRome by theGauls, and was ever after accounted highly ominous and unfortunate.
At the head of his victorious legions, in his reign over the ſea and land, from the Nile and Euphrates to the Atlantic ocean,Auguſtus proclaimed himſelf the ſervant of the ſtate and the equal of his fellow-citizens. The conqueror of Rome and her provinces aſſumed the popular and legal form of acenſor, a conſul, and a tribune.
1876,William Ramsay, “Magistrates of the Regal and Republican Periods and under the Early Emperors”, inA Manual of Roman Antiquities, 10th edition, London: Charles Griffin and Company[…],→OCLC,page165:
TheCensors were always two in number, and were originally chosen from the Patricians exclusively. In B.C. 351, we find for the first time a PlebeianCensor,G[aius] Marcius Rutilus. In B.C. 339, aLex Publilia was passed byQ[uintus] Publilius Philo when Dictator, enacting that at least one of theCensors must be a Plebeian.
(Ancient China,historical) A high-ranking official who was responsible for the supervision of subordinate government officials.
The headmaster was an even strictercensor of his boarding pupils’ correspondence than the enemycensors had been of his own when the country was occupied.
There being acensor of public morals I will refrain from giving that worthy warrior's reply when he had digested this astounding piece of information; it is sufficient to say that it did not encourage further conversation, nor did it soothe our hero's nerves.
1691,[Anthony Wood], “THEOPHILUS HIGGONS”, inAthenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of KingHenry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690.[…], volume II (Completing the Whole Work), London:[…] Tho[mas] Bennet[…],→OCLC,column154:
During his [Theophilus Higgons's] reſidence in the ſaid houſe [Christ Church, Oxford], he was eſteemed a Perſon to be much ſtained with Puritaniſme, and to be violent againſt all ſuch that were ſuſpected to favour the Romiſh See. When he wasCenſor alſo, he was ſo zealous as to ſaw down a harmleſs maypole ſtanding within the precincts of the ſaid houſe, becauſe forſooth he thought it came out of a Romiſh Foreſt.
Why that character [of the English Revolution] was so peculiar is sufficiently obvious, and yet seems not to have been always understood either by eulogists or bycensors.
(computing) Analgorithm that approves or rejects something on grounds of taste or morality etc.
I tried using a dirty word as my user name for the online game, but thecensor rejected it.
Not to be confused withcenser(“container for burning incense; person who perfumes with incense”) orcensure(“act of condemning as wrong; official reprimand”).
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“censor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“censor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"censor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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