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Definition censor

Etymology

From Latin c?nsor (“magistrate, critic”), from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”), from Proto-Italic *kens??, from Proto-Indo-European *?n?s-é-ti, *?n?s-eyé-ti, from *?ens- (“to announce”). Cognate with Sanskrit ????? (?á?sati, “to declare”), Proto-Iranian *?ánhati.

Noun

censor (plural censors)

1. (historical) A Roman magistrate, originally a census administrator, by Classical times a high judge of public behavior and morality.
2. An official responsible for the removal of objectionable or sensitive content.
3. One who censures or condemns.
4. (psychology) A hypothetical subconscious agency which filters unacceptable thought before it reaches the conscious.

Verb

censor (third-person singular simple present censors, present participle censoring, simple past and past participle censored)

1. (transitive) To review in order to remove objectionable content from correspondence or public media, either by legal criteria or with discretionary powers.
2. (transitive) To remove objectionable content.

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