- The definition of a censor is a person who reads or looks at books, movies or other sources of information and then prevents the release of information that is considered inappropriate.
A person who watches movies and then decides if they are too inappropriate or obscene is an example of a censor.
- To censor is to suppress information because you do not like its content.
When you prevent a book from being read in schools because you do not like its content, this is an example of a time when you censor the book.
This page has been censored.
censor definition by Webster's New World
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
Origin: Classical Latin ; from censere, to tax, value, judge ; from Indo-European base an unverified form ens, speak solemnly, announce from source Sanskrit ṡáṁsa, praise, prayer of praise
transitive verb
to subject (a book, writer, etc.) to censorship
Related Forms:
- censorial adjective
censor definition by American Heritage Dictionary
noun
- A person authorized to examine books, films, or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically, or otherwise objectionable.
- An official, as in the armed forces, who examines personal mail and official dispatches to remove information considered secret or a risk to security.
- One that condemns or censures.
- One of two officials in ancient Rome responsible for taking the public census and supervising public behavior and morals.
- Psychology The agent in the unconscious that is responsible for censorship.
To examine and expurgate.
Origin: Latin cēnsor, Roman censor, from cēnsēre, to assess; see kens- in Indo-European roots.
Related Forms:
- cenˈsor·a·ble adjective
- cen·soˈri·al adjective
censor - Legal Definition
v
To officially inspect books, films, letters, newspapers, and other media or
methods of communication in order to suppress them or to delete any portions
thereof deemed offensive or objectionable for moral, political, religious, or
other reasons.
n
A person who censors the
media or other methods of communication.
censor - Medical Definition
noun
The hypothetical agent in the unconscious mind that is responsible for suppressing unconscious thoughts and wishes.
