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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
censor
I.noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As time passed, however, the Church censors began to act as if the distinction were of no importance.
▪ However, Kahn may have had the last laugh in spite of his censors.
▪ In this form the censor permitted the book to pass.
▪ Ironically, SurfWatch has become something of a censor itself, since the company decides which sites to block.
▪ Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like.
▪ They know that his letters home will be read by censors, and that any indication of his whereabouts will be expunged.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Prisoners' letters were always heavily censored.
▪ The court ruled that student newspapers could not be censored by school officials.
▪ The government censored all letters and telegrams going abroad during the war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As indicated, Spenser was unsuccessful, his tract censored.
▪ But he had been on the bad side of the government lately, having publicly criticized it for censoring authors.
▪ Film was still censored, but by more liberal standards than in 1945.
▪ It was an appalling thing to censor Picasso like that.
▪ Mail was censored, and there were no personal telephones.
▪ Private businesses and clubs can censor all they like.
▪ The works Mr Torode would refuse to censor differ in status.
▪ There was never any question of censoring his speech.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Censor

Censor \Cen"sor\, n. [L. censor, fr. censere to value, tax.]

  1. (Antiq.) 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
censor

1530s, "Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals," from Middle French censor and directly from Latin censor, from censere "to appraise, value, judge," from PIE root *kens- "speak solemnly, announce" (cognates: Sanskrit śamsati "recites, praises," śasa "song of praise").\n

\nThere were two of them at a time in classical times, usually patricians, and they also had charge of public finances and public works. Transferred sense of "officious judge of morals and conduct" in English is from 1590s. Roman censor also had a transferred sense of "a severe judge; a rigid moralist; a censurer." Of books, plays (later films, etc.), 1640s. By the early decades of the 19c. the meaning of the English word had shaded into "state agent charged with suppression of speech or published matter deemed politically subversive." Related: Censorial.

censor

1833 of media, from censor (n.). Related: Censored; censoring.

Wiktionary
censor

n. 1 (context history English) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality 2 An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content 3 One who censures or condemns 4 (context psychology English) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious 5 (''acronym'') Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios vb. 1 (context transitive English) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers 2 (context transitive English) To remove objectionable content

WordNet
censor

n. a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable

censor
  1. v. forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) [syn: ban]

  2. subject to political, religious, or moral censorship; "This magazine is censored by the government"

Wikipedia
Censor

Censor may refer to:

Censor (song)

Censor is a single by the band Skinny Puppy created for the song "Dogshit".

Censor (film)

Censor is a 2001 Indian Bollywood film directed and produced by Dev Anand. It stars Dev Anand, Jackie Shroff, Hema Malini in pivotal roles.

Usage examples of "censor".

He artfully insinuated, that the office of censor was inseparable from the Imperial dignity, and that the feeble hands of a subject were unequal to the support of such an immense weight of cares and of power.

But whatever the explanation, he had strictly censored himself from that night on, treating her in an avuncular manner that had amazed himself, and would certainly have flabbergasted any of his cronies or former mistresses had they seen him.

Captain Vlamos, who was one of those who came to take her to the Censor, and he told me that the Censor has an accusation of sorcery against my mistress, which is not only a defamation of her character, but it places her in gravest danger with no means to refute such a charge.

Metellus Pius, who had never been in favor of granting the full Roman citizenship to the Italians, and had secretly applauded Philippus as censor because Philippus and his fellow censor, Perperna, had avoided enrolling the Italians as Roman citizens.

I wrote it here two years ago and I would not have published it if I had not dared hope that the Theological Censor would permit it.

On taking his degree he entered the Civil Service, where he remained all his life, at first in the Ministry of Finance, later, when in 1856 it was decided to liberalize the censorship, as a censor.

With the secrets of both antimatter and an interstellar drive to be protected, anything she was going to netcast about this ride was to have been cleared first by UPIA censors.

In a manly oration, not unworthy of a Roman censor, the eunuch reproved these disorderly vices, which sullied their fame, and endangered their safety.

Martha did not forbid me to use the library, but she effectively censored my reading by putting the verboten volumes on shelves that were too high for me to reach.

Prince of the Senate, which had always been bestowed, by the censors, on the citizen the most eminent for his honors and services.

The civil offices of consul, of proconsul, of censor, and of tribune, by the union of which it had been formed, betrayed to the people its republican extraction.

We are informed, that when the Emperor Claudius exercised the office of censor, he took an account of six millions nine hundred and forty-five thousand Roman citizens, who, with the proportion of women and children, must have amounted to about twenty millions of souls.

The poem was suppressed by GHQ, obviously because the censors remained hypersensitive to any overt expression whatever of Japanese regret at losing the war.

Cornelius Merula, the censor Publius Licinius Crassus, the banker and merchant Titus Pomponius, the banker Gaius Oppius, Quintus Mucius Scaevola Pontifex Maximus, and Marcus Antonius Orator, just returned to the Senate after a protracted illness.

Before being alerted that combat was imminent, the crew of the Venture, like those of the other ships in the task force, had been passing the time in various amusements, some gambling, some composing letters home that would, after the censor had seen them, be sent in microform when courier space happened to be available.