Censor
WordNet
noun
(1) 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
(2) Someone who censures or condemns
verb
(3) Subject to political, religious, or moral censorship
"This magazine is censored by the government"
(4) Forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper)
WiktionaryText
Etymology
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Noun
- A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality
- The Ancient censors were part of the cursus honorum, a series of public offices held during a political career, like consuls and praetors.
- An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content
- The headmaster is an even stricter censor for his boarding pupils' correspondence than the enemy censors had been for his own when the country was occupied.
- One who censures or condemns
- A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
- (acronym) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios
Verb
- To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers
- The man responsible for censoring films has seen some things in his time.
- To remove objectionable content
- Occupying powers typically censor anything reeking of resistance
Noun
- A Roman collegial state magistrate; one of two officials officially sworn to duty taking a census of the Romans, later evolved into a high moral office.
- A provincial magistrate with similar duties.
- A critic, especially a severe one of morals and society.
Noun
censor
- censor; a Roman census administrator
- censor; an official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content