Census vs Censitary - What's the difference?
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An official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.
To collect a census.
(history) (of an elective franchise, especially in the nineteenth century) dependent on or proportional to a poll tax (cense) or property qualification; restricted
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Census is a related term of censitary.
As a noun census
is an official count of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.As a verb census
is to collect a census.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.census
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(wikipedia census)Noun
(censuses)Verb
(es)censitary
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Alternative forms
* censitarianAdjective
(-)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.
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