censorn.

/ˈsɛnsə/

Forms: Middle English–1500s sensour, 1500s sensor, 1500s–1600s censour, 1600s censure, 1500s– censor.

Etymology: < Latin censor, < censēre : see cense v.²

1. The title of two magistrates in ancient Rome, who drew up the register or census of the citizens, etc., and had the supervision of public morals.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > ancient Roman dealing with morals

censor1533

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > of public morals > in ancient Rome

censor1533

censurer1586

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 323 In this yere began the office of censouris.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 244 Twice being Censor .

1742 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) I. 117 These Censors were the guardians of the discipline and manners of the City.

1838–43 T. Arnold Hist. Rome III. xliv. 172 Censors, to whom the duty of making out the roll of the senate..belonged.

a. transferred. One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > of public morals

censurer1586

censor1592

licenser1644

captor1646

1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. C2^v A seuere sensor to such as offend the law.

a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 68 Cleanthes..for his manifest vertues, we make such judge and censure of youth.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xx. 564 The bishop was the perpetual censor of the morals of his people.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 251 Regarding his father as a rigid censor.

1871 J. Duncan & W. Knight Colloquia Peripatetica (ed. 3) 118 Punch is a censor, but not censorious.

b. spec. An official in some countries whose duty it is to inspect all books, journals, dramatic pieces, etc., before publication, to secure that they shall contain nothing immoral, heretical, or offensive to the government. More explicitly dramatic censor, film censor.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses

censor1644

suppresser1895

smotherer1897

scissor man1968

society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > suppression or repression > of news or information > one who

censor1644

suppresser1895

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses > spec

censor1644

press censor1853

smut-hound1927

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text > removal of objectionable passages > one who

book purger1606

expurgator1638

censor1644

censoress1778

castrator1819

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 21 He..must appear in print like a punie with his guardian, and his censors hand on the back of his title, to be his bayl and suretye that he is no idiot, or seducer.

1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 12 Mar. 1/1 A Record in the Censor's Office.

1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 607 I prevailed so far as to have it submitted to the inspection of a Censor.

1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 106 Information coming from such sources..would be received with caution by the censors of the press.

1839 Lytton Let. 20 Dec. in C. H. Shattuck Bulwer & Macready (1958) 148 Wd the office of censor (Dramatic) be one..agreeable to yourself?

1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 131 A man of letters whose life was tormented by censors of the press.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 227/2 The master of the revels appears to have been the dramatic censor from 1545 to 1624.

1912 Times 30 Nov. 4/6 Mr. G. A. Redford..now Censor of Cinematograph Films, is engaged in organizing the British Board of Film Censors, of which he is the director.

1930 G. B. Shaw in Times 17 Feb. 15/5 Mr. Edward Shortt, who lately succeeded the late T. P. O'Connor as Film Censor.

c. In Universities and Colleges, the title of various officials.At Oxford and Cambridge it is the title of the official Head of the Non-collegiate or ‘Unattached’ Students; in the Royal College of Physicians, the officers who grant licenses.

ΚΠ

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 359 Intolerably impudent, saucy and refractory to the Censor.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. iv. 146 The providing of Censors and examiners.

1885 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 281 The [Non-collegiate] Students are under the supervision of the Censor, who is charged with the care of their conduct and studies.

1885 Med. Directory at Coll. of Physicians All other candidates for Membership shall be examined on the subjects of General Education by the President and Censors of the College.

d. U.S. (See quot.)

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > member of body which examines constitution

censor1794

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xv. 257 The Censors and moderators to decide controuersies in matters of state.]

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 349 A council of censors, to consist of thirteen persons to be elected by the people every seventh year. The duty assigned to them is to inquire whether the constitution has been preserved inviolate.

1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxii. 369 Once in seven years an elective council of censors was to take care that freedom and the constitution were preserved in purity.

e. An official whose duty it is to censor private correspondence (as in time of war: cf. censor v.).

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > officers with other specific functions

Master of the Artillery1512

trench-master1577

supernumerary1644

trench-sergeanta1753

beach-master1874

observation officer1904

censor1914

cipher officer1915

range safety officer1942

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses > private correspondence

censor1914

1914 (stamped on envelope of soldier's letter from the Front) Passed by Censor.

1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 290 These [letters]..are stamped with the familiar red triangle and forwarded to the Base, where they are supposed to be scrutinised by the real Censor.

1918 B. Miall tr. A. Hamon Lessons of World-war 146 In a letter written from England to a French non-commissioned officer, the censor cut out all that concerned the miners' strike in Wales!

1918 B. Miall tr. A. Hamon Lessons of World-war 147 Correspondence from neutrals was examined and bore the paper band now well known in the United Kingdom: ‘Opened by the censor’.

†a. A person who judges or criticizes. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in

censorian1598

censor1615

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 502 Referred or brought hereunto as vnto their Iudge and Censor.

b. esp. One who censures or blames; an adverse critic; one given to fault-finding.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > dispraiser > one who censures or condemns

deemerc1410

controller1534

condemner?1541

censurer1586

censor1598

syndic1611

damner1647

reprobater1680

reprobator1684

exploder1749

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E6^v Hence thou misiudging Censor.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. Ded. 406 Baited by the differing censures of diverse censors.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 172. ⁋5 Nor can the most..steady rectitude escape blame from censors, who have no inclination to approve.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 661 Not..understood either by eulogists or by censors.

1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 4 A defence of the Universities against their censors.

4. Psychology. [Mistranslation of German zensur censorship.] A mental power or force which represses certain elements in the unconscious and prevents them from emerging into the conscious mind. Also attributive. Cf. censorship n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > sublimation of libido > [noun] > repressive force

censor1912

censorship1924

Freudian censor1927

1912 Maclean's Nov. 152/1 But the ‘censor’, to use the Freudian terminology, is easily deceived.

1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams vi. 287 We may state, as a second condition which the elements must satisfy in order to get into the dream, that they must be withdrawn from the censor of resistance.

1920 B. Low Psycho-anal. 63 This force of the Unconscious..at times so powerful that the Censor-barrier..is swept aside.

1926 G. Coster Psycho-anal. 200 The endopsychic censor, the judge within the soul.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

censorv.

Etymology: < censor n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcensor.

transitive. To act as censor to; see censor n. 2b; spec. with reference to the control of news and the departmental supervision of naval and military private correspondence (as in time of war) or to the censorship of dramatic or cinematographic productions. Often in participial adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)]

censure1590

syndic1609

syndicate1610

arraign1623

censorize1860

censor1882

critique1950

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > keep concealed [verb (transitive)] > refrain or prevent from publishing

suppress1533

stifle1577

pocketa1616

censorize1860

censor1882

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > review [verb (transitive)]

review1705

critique1752

notice1831

rewatch1841

censor1882

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > emend > remove objectionable passages from

castrate1627

expurge1635

expurgate1678

bowdlerize1836

censor1882

1882 H. Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. VII. Introd. 35 The Fathers were constantly engaged by the Inquisitors in censoring books infected with heresy.

1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 320/1 The severely censored columns of the Russian daily press.

1897 Daily News 13 Sept. 5/2 All news is being rigorously censored.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 5/3 Everything read to him is carefully censored.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 2/1 Finally the correspondent is handed back his censored despatch, probably reduced to a mere sequence of words conveying little intelligence.

1904 Daily Chron. 13 May 4/4 Censoring is very strict during the war. No news is allowed to be published which has anything to do with the movements of the army.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 9/2 Ibsen's censored play entitled ‘Ghosts’.

1915 R. Brooke Let. Apr. (1968) 681 I must go & censor my platoon's letters.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	censor
释义	censorn. /ˈsɛnsə/ Forms: Middle English–1500s sensour, 1500s sensor, 1500s–1600s censour, 1600s censure, 1500s– censor. Etymology: < Latin censor, < censēre : see cense v.² 1. The title of two magistrates in ancient Rome, who drew up the register or census of the citizens, etc., and had the supervision of public morals. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > [noun] > ancient Roman dealing with morals censor1533 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > of public morals > in ancient Rome censor1533 censurer1586 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) iv. 323 In this yere began the office of censouris. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. iii. 244 Twice being Censor . View more context for this quotation 1742 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero (ed. 3) I. 117 These Censors were the guardians of the discipline and manners of the City. 1838–43 T. Arnold Hist. Rome III. xliv. 172 Censors, to whom the duty of making out the roll of the senate..belonged. 2. a. transferred. One who exercises official or officious supervision over morals and conduct. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > of public morals censurer1586 censor1592 licenser1644 captor1646 1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. C2^v A seuere sensor to such as offend the law. a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Old Law (1656) v. 68 Cleanthes..for his manifest vertues, we make such judge and censure of youth. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xx. 564 The bishop was the perpetual censor of the morals of his people. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ix, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 251 Regarding his father as a rigid censor. 1871 J. Duncan & W. Knight Colloquia Peripatetica (ed. 3) 118 Punch is a censor, but not censorious. b. spec. An official in some countries whose duty it is to inspect all books, journals, dramatic pieces, etc., before publication, to secure that they shall contain nothing immoral, heretical, or offensive to the government. More explicitly dramatic censor, film censor. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses censor1644 suppresser1895 smotherer1897 scissor man1968 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > suppression or repression > of news or information > one who censor1644 suppresser1895 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses > spec censor1644 press censor1853 smut-hound1927 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text > removal of objectionable passages > one who book purger1606 expurgator1638 censor1644 censoress1778 castrator1819 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 21 He..must appear in print like a punie with his guardian, and his censors hand on the back of his title, to be his bayl and suretye that he is no idiot, or seducer. 1752 H. Fielding Covent-Garden Jrnl. 12 Mar. 1/1 A Record in the Censor's Office. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 607 I prevailed so far as to have it submitted to the inspection of a Censor. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 106 Information coming from such sources..would be received with caution by the censors of the press. 1839 Lytton Let. 20 Dec. in C. H. Shattuck Bulwer & Macready (1958) 148 Wd the office of censor (Dramatic) be one..agreeable to yourself? 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 131 A man of letters whose life was tormented by censors of the press. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 227/2 The master of the revels appears to have been the dramatic censor from 1545 to 1624. 1912 Times 30 Nov. 4/6 Mr. G. A. Redford..now Censor of Cinematograph Films, is engaged in organizing the British Board of Film Censors, of which he is the director. 1930 G. B. Shaw in Times 17 Feb. 15/5 Mr. Edward Shortt, who lately succeeded the late T. P. O'Connor as Film Censor. c. In Universities and Colleges, the title of various officials.At Oxford and Cambridge it is the title of the official Head of the Non-collegiate or ‘Unattached’ Students; in the Royal College of Physicians, the officers who grant licenses. ΚΠ 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 359 Intolerably impudent, saucy and refractory to the Censor. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. iv. 146 The providing of Censors and examiners. 1885 Oxf. Univ. Cal. 281 The [Non-collegiate] Students are under the supervision of the Censor, who is charged with the care of their conduct and studies. 1885 Med. Directory at Coll. of Physicians All other candidates for Membership shall be examined on the subjects of General Education by the President and Censors of the College. d. U.S. (See quot.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > member of body which examines constitution censor1794 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xv. 257 The Censors and moderators to decide controuersies in matters of state.] 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 349 A council of censors, to consist of thirteen persons to be elected by the people every seventh year. The duty assigned to them is to inquire whether the constitution has been preserved inviolate. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. xxii. 369 Once in seven years an elective council of censors was to take care that freedom and the constitution were preserved in purity. e. An official whose duty it is to censor private correspondence (as in time of war: cf. censor v.). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > leader or commander > officer according to function > [noun] > officers with other specific functions Master of the Artillery1512 trench-master1577 supernumerary1644 trench-sergeanta1753 beach-master1874 observation officer1904 censor1914 cipher officer1915 range safety officer1942 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > one who controls or suppresses > private correspondence censor1914 1914 (stamped on envelope of soldier's letter from the Front) Passed by Censor. 1915 ‘I. Hay’ First Hundred Thousand xix. 290 These [letters]..are stamped with the familiar red triangle and forwarded to the Base, where they are supposed to be scrutinised by the real Censor. 1918 B. Miall tr. A. Hamon Lessons of World-war 146 In a letter written from England to a French non-commissioned officer, the censor cut out all that concerned the miners' strike in Wales! 1918 B. Miall tr. A. Hamon Lessons of World-war 147 Correspondence from neutrals was examined and bore the paper band now well known in the United Kingdom: ‘Opened by the censor’. 3. †a. A person who judges or criticizes. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in censorian1598 censor1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 502 Referred or brought hereunto as vnto their Iudge and Censor. b. esp. One who censures or blames; an adverse critic; one given to fault-finding. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > dispraiser > one who censures or condemns deemerc1410 controller1534 condemner?1541 censurer1586 censor1598 syndic1611 damner1647 reprobater1680 reprobator1684 exploder1749 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vi. sig. E6^v Hence thou misiudging Censor. 1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes v. Ded. 406 Baited by the differing censures of diverse censors. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 172. ⁋5 Nor can the most..steady rectitude escape blame from censors, who have no inclination to approve. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 661 Not..understood either by eulogists or by censors. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation 4 A defence of the Universities against their censors. 4. Psychology. [Mistranslation of German zensur censorship.] A mental power or force which represses certain elements in the unconscious and prevents them from emerging into the conscious mind. Also attributive. Cf. censorship n. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > sublimation of libido > [noun] > repressive force censor1912 censorship1924 Freudian censor1927 1912 Maclean's Nov. 152/1 But the ‘censor’, to use the Freudian terminology, is easily deceived. 1913 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Interpretation of Dreams vi. 287 We may state, as a second condition which the elements must satisfy in order to get into the dream, that they must be withdrawn from the censor of resistance. 1920 B. Low Psycho-anal. 63 This force of the Unconscious..at times so powerful that the Censor-barrier..is swept aside. 1926 G. Coster Psycho-anal. 200 The endopsychic censor, the judge within the soul. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). censorv. Etymology: < censor n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcensor. transitive. To act as censor to; see censor n. 2b; spec. with reference to the control of news and the departmental supervision of naval and military private correspondence (as in time of war) or to the censorship of dramatic or cinematographic productions. Often in participial adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] censure1590 syndic1609 syndicate1610 arraign1623 censorize1860 censor1882 critique1950 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > keep concealed [verb (transitive)] > refrain or prevent from publishing suppress1533 stifle1577 pocketa1616 censorize1860 censor1882 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > review or critique > review [verb (transitive)] review1705 critique1752 notice1831 rewatch1841 censor1882 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > practise textual criticism [verb (transitive)] > emend > remove objectionable passages from castrate1627 expurge1635 expurgate1678 bowdlerize1836 censor1882 1882 H. Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. VII. Introd. 35 The Fathers were constantly engaged by the Inquisitors in censoring books infected with heresy. 1895 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 320/1 The severely censored columns of the Russian daily press. 1897 Daily News 13 Sept. 5/2 All news is being rigorously censored. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 9 Mar. 5/3 Everything read to him is carefully censored. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 22 Nov. 2/1 Finally the correspondent is handed back his censored despatch, probably reduced to a mere sequence of words conveying little intelligence. 1904 Daily Chron. 13 May 4/4 Censoring is very strict during the war. No news is allowed to be published which has anything to do with the movements of the army. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 21 Oct. 9/2 Ibsen's censored play entitled ‘Ghosts’. 1915 R. Brooke Let. Apr. (1968) 681 I must go & censor my platoon's letters. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1533v.1882
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