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Censor vs Censitary - What's the difference?

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Censor is a related term of censitary.


In history|lang=en terms the difference between censor and censitary

is that censor is (history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality while censitary is (history) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted.

As a noun censor

is (history) a roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.

As a verb censor

is to review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.

As an adjective censitary is

(history) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted.

censor

English

Alternative forms

* censour (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (history) 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
  • (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious
  • (acronym ) Censors Ensure No Secrets Over Radios

    • Synonyms

    * censurer

    Related terms

    * censorial * censorious * censorship * censure * census

    Verb

    (en 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

    Synonyms

    * bowdlerize

    See also

    * decensor * expurgate

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * ----

    censitary

    English

    Alternative forms

    * censitarian

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (history) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted
  • * 1895 " The Present Condition of Russia]" [[w:Peter Kropotkin, Peter Kropotkin], Littell's Living Age'' (reprinted from ''Nineteenth Century ) Volume 207, Number 2677 (26 October 1895) p.223, fn:
    • The composition of the Provincial and District Assemblies out of representatives of the three orders (peasants, clergy, and nobles), and the censitary provisions taken for keeping the representatives of the peasants in a minority, were, as experience has shown, a useless and vexatious precaution.
  • * 1988 " Peasant movements and communal property during the French Revolution" David Hunt, Theory and Society Volume 17, Number 2, p.255:
    • By 1791-92, the two camps were moving toward a property-based, or censitary , compromise

    Antonyms

    * universal

    Related terms

    * cense, censor, census