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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. 2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press,

Additional info about word: CENSOR

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. 2. 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. 3. One given to fault-finding; a censurer. Nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. Rambler. 4. A critic; a reviewer. Received with caution by the censors of the press. W. Irving.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CENSOR)

• Critic
• Judge
• censor
• arbiter
• savant

Related words: (words related to CENSOR)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• CRITICASTER
  A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.
• CENSORIAN
  Censorial. Bacon.
• CRITIC
  1. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was,
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• CENSOR
  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. 2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press,
• JUDGE
  A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length,
• CENSORIOUS
  1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts. 2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious
• JUDGESHIP
  The office of a judge.
• CRITICISE
  1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;
• CRITICISABLE
  Capable of being criticised.
• JUDGE-MADE
  Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used
• CRITICAL
  Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
• CENSORIAL
  1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius. 2. Full of censure; censorious. The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton.
• ARBITER
  1. A person appointed, or chosen, by parties to determine a controversy between them. Note: In modern usage, arbitrator is the technical word. 2. Any person who has the power of judging and determining, or ordaining, without control; one whose
• SAVANT
  A man of learning; one versed in literature or science; a person eminent for acquirements.
• CRITICISM
  1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements
• CENSORSHIP
  The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• ECCRITIC
  A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
• INCENSOR
  A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.
• ABJUDGE
  To take away by judicial decision.
• REJUDGE
  To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.
• ILL-JUDGED
  Not well judged; unwise.
• NEOCRITICISM
  The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
• ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
  The art of interpreting dreams.