Legal Definition and Related Resources of Censor
Meaning of Censor
Synonyms of Censor
verb
- ban
- bar
- blot out
- bowdlerize
- cancel
- censor
- control
- control the flow of news
- cut
- delete
- disallow
- disapprove
- discountenance
- dispense with
- disqualify
- eject
- eliminate
- enforce censorship
- eradicate
- erase
- exclude
- expunge
- expurgate
- forbid
- impose a ban
- inhibit
- interfere
- judge
- keep within bounds
- leave out
- limit
- not include
- omit
- oversee
- pass under review
- police
- preclude
- prevent
- prevent publication
- prohibit
- proscribe
- quash
- refuse
- refuse permission
- reject
- restrain
- restrict
- review
- rub out
- scratch out
- sift
- submerge
- supervise communications
- suppress
- withhold permission
- Associated Concepts: censorship
- Federal Communications Act
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Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Censor
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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” (source also of Sanskrit _amsati “recites, praises,” _asa “song of praise”). There 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.
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