censor 
cen·sor (sen′sər)
noun
- one of two magistrates in ancient Rome appointed to take the census and, later, to supervise public morals
- an official with the power to examine publications, movies, television programs, etc. and to remove or prohibit anything considered obscene, libelous, politically objectionable, etc.
- an official in time of war who reads publications, mail, etc. to remove information that might be useful to the enemy
- in earlier psychoanalytic theory, and still popularly, a part of the unconscious that serves as the agent of censorship
Etymology: L < censere, to tax, value, judge < IE base *ens, speak solemnly, announce > Sans ṡáṁsa, praise, prayer of praise
transitive verb
to subject (a book, writer, etc.) to censorship
censor
v.
v
n
Object
- observation: Note that the the survival distribution is a truncated Weibull for censored observations as discussed in the mice example.
- listing: This Web Site acts as a venue for employers to post job opportunities for candidates but does not screen or censor the listings offered.
- Internet: The Great Debate: Should we censor the Internet?
- version: EMI have released a censored version of the album, with the offending image obscured by the band's name.
- websites: Reporters Without Borders says that Morocco now censors all political websites advocating Western Sahara's independence.
- press: Authoritarian regimes are more likely to torture, execute, regulate religion and censor the press.
Converse of object
- pass: Many authors deliberately avoid certain types of references to allow their material to get passed the official censor.
Converse of subject
- ban: The movie was screened without a certificate in June at the Irish Film Center, which has previously shown films banned by the censor.
- pass: More detail will follow once it has been passed by the censor.
Adjective modifier
- would-be: It is, alas, the case that few would-be censors are capable of intelligently reading or viewing that which they wish to censor.
- military: With us in Gotha, this help is coming from the military censor, in Hamburg, from the ban on meetings.
- British: The British censor removed all the scenes depicting Devil worship.
- official: Last year he was offered the job of official censor of the Queen's Catholic subjects.
Modifying Another Word
- heavily: The Guardian column, heavily censored, was aimed to debunk sex myths.
- officially: Here is the proof that this work has been officially censored by Professor Bernard Carr's committee which included Dr. Susan Blackmore.
Noun used with modifier
- film: He was also senior film censor at the British Board of Film Classification.
Possessives
- seal: The censor's seal of Muramatsu occurs on Acts III, IV, VI, IX, X, and XI.
Preposition: of
- inet: Posted at 11:57 am on 23 May 2006 by Philosopher-in-waiting RE: RE: the censor of the inet There is something to gain.
Preposition: from
- paper: It will of course be censored from all large circulation papers and magazines.
Yes, they say, go and write whatever story you want, but don't use whatever language is necessary By implication those in authority ask the writer to censor and suppressheror his ownwork.Theydemand it.If you don't comply then your work isn't produced.
It is not difficult to censor foreign news. What is difficult today is to censor one's own thoughts,ö To sit by and see the blind man On the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss.
But they can't censor the gleam in my eye.
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