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censor : to examine (as a publication or film) in order to suppress or delete any contents considered objectionable n : one that censors ...
censored
suppressed or subjected to censorship as the censored press in some countries Opposite of uncensored...
Censor
Censor. A person who regulates or prohibits the publication of any newspaper or the production of any play or any part thereof. There is ordinarily no censorship of the press in England; but by ss. 12 and 14 of the (English) Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), a copy of every new stage play must, before it is acted for hire at any theatre in Great Britain, be sent to the Lord Chamberlain of His Majesty's Household, who will issue a license for its production or forbid it for the 'preservation of good manners, decorum, or the public peace.' See THEATRE; CINEMATOGRAPH.Roman Law. A Roman officer who acted as a census taker, assess or, and reviewer of public morals, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
censorship
censorship : the institution, system, or practice of censoring compare freedom of speech, prior restraint ...
Catonian
Of pertaining to or resembling the stern old Roman Cato the Censor severe inflexible...
Censor
One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct...
Censorial
Belonging to a censor or to the correction of public morals...
Censorship
The office or power of a censor as to stand for a censorship...
Hypercritic
One who is critical beyond measure or reason a carping critic a captious censor...
Lustrum
A lustration or purification especially the purification of the whole Roman people which was made by the censors once in five years...
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