单词 | censorship |
释义 | censorshipn. 1. The office of a Roman censor (or its period). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > office or function of > in ancient Rome censurea1533 censorship1600 censureship1606 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. 264 To stand for a Censorship. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 361 The dignity of the censorship was..lessened by the Æmilian law. 2. a. gen. The office or function of a censor (see censor n. 2); official supervision. spec. control of dramatic production and films (see 2b, 2e). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] censorship1591 suppressing1591 reservation1612 suppression1628 no names, no pack drill1903 blackout1941 society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] > suppression or repression > of news or information censorship1591 censureship1606 censure1663 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [noun] > person engaged in > office or function of censorship1591 censureship1606 assize1641 censure1663 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > [noun] > emendation of text > removal of objectionable passages expurgation1608 expurging1635 castration1797 censorship1856 bowdlerism1869 bowdlerization1882 bowdlerizing1886 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > of plays, films, etc. censorship1879 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Censura The censorship or iudgement. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 47 Other thing then a Christian censorship. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 292 There was no censorship upon speech. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues IV. 35 If I were a lawgiver, I would exercise a censorship over the poets. 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 143/1 A notable incident in the history of the stage, inasmuch as it led to the institution of the dramatic censorship. 1912 Times 4 July 6/2 (heading) Cinematograph film censorship. 1918 B. Miall tr. A. Hamon Lessons of World-war 146 The censorship of all correspondence was a stupendous task. 1930 Times 17 Feb. 15/5 Mr. Shaw on Film Censorship. b. spec. of the press: see censor n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [noun] > of press censorship1827 society > communication > printing > publishing > publisher > [noun] > censor > expurgation of literary work emasculation1654 censorship1827 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. II. xv. 517 Even during the existence of a censorship, a host of unlicensed publications..bore witness to the inefficacy of its restrictions. 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands III. 80 In the middle of 1806, a decree of the viceroy declared, that no literary censorship should be instituted. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 540 The law which subjected the press to a censorship. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §5. 514 The censorship struck fiercer blows at the Puritan press. c. as a university or college office. ΚΠ 1880 T. Fowler Locke ii. 12 The Censorship of Natural Philosophy..he appears never to have held. 3. Psychology. = censor n. 4; the function of a mental censor. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > theory of psychoanalysis > libido > sublimation of libido > [noun] > repressive force censor1912 censorship1924 Freudian censor1927 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 80 Unpleasant experiences..driven out of consciousness, and kept there by means of what Freud calls a censorship. 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 90 The repressions and censorships of which Freud and others make so much are connected with changes in the nervous system. 1925 tr. Freud's Coll. Papers IV. iii. 54 Dream-formation takes place under the sway of a censorship which compels distortion of the dream-thoughts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1591 |
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