| 单词 | dramatic censor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdramatic censor 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. < as lemmas |
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