Censure vs Consanguineous - What's the difference?
censure | consanguineous |
The act of blaming]], criticizing, or [[condemn, condemning as wrong; reprehension.
* Macaulay
An official reprimand.
Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
* Bishop Burnet
(obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
* William Shakespeare Hamlet , Act I, scene III:
to criticize harshly
* Shakespeare
to formally rebuke
(obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
Related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.
* 2002', B. Modell and A. Darr, "Science and society: genetic counselling and customary '''consanguineous marriage," ''Nature Reviews: Genetics , vol 3. no. 3 (Mar.), p. 225,
As a noun censure
is the act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.As a verb censure
is to criticize harshly.As an adjective consanguineous is
related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.censure
English
(wikipedia censure)Noun
(en noun)- Both the censure and the praise were merited.
- excommunication or other censure of the church
- Take each man's censure , but reserve thy judgment.
Verb
(censur)- I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.
- Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.
Synonyms
* See alsoReferences
* * * ----consanguineous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Consanguineous marriage is customary in many societies, but leads to an increased birth prevalence of infants with severe recessive disorders.