censure

WOTD – 30 September 2015

See also: censuré

Contents

EnglishEdit

Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

1350–1400 Middle English, from Old French, from Latin censūra ‎(“censor's office or assessment”), from censere ‎(“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).

PronunciationEdit

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.sjə/, /ˈsɛn.sʃə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛn.ʃɚ/

NounEdit

censure ‎(plural censures)

1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
   • Macaulay

     Both the censure and the praise were merited.

2. An official reprimand.
3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
   • Bishop Burnet

     excommunication or other censure of the church

4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
   • William Shakespeare Hamlet, Act I, scene III:

     Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

TranslationsEdit

the act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension

• Armenian: պարսավանք (hy) ‎(parsavankʿ)
• Bulgarian: неодобрение (bg) n ‎(neodobrenie)
• Russian: порица́ние (ru) n ‎(poricánije), нарека́ние (ru) n ‎(narekánije)

• Spanish: censurar (es)
• Tagalog: pula (tl)

an official reprimand

• Bulgarian: порицание (bg) n ‎(poricanie)

• Russian: вы́говор (ru) m ‎(výgovor), замеча́ние (ru) n ‎(zamečánije)

judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand

VerbEdit

censure ‎(third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)

1. To criticize harshly.
   • Shakespeare

     I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.

2. To formally rebuke.
3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.

SynonymsEdit

• See also Wikisaurus:reprehend

TranslationsEdit

to criticize harshly

• Arabic: لَام ‎(lām), اِسْتِنْكَر ‎(istinkar), اِسْتِهْجَن ‎(istihjan)

  Egyptian Arabic: لام ‎(laam), استنكر ‎(estankar), استهجن ‎(estahgen)

• Bulgarian: порицавам (bg) ‎(poricavam)
• Maori: wenerau
• Tagalog: pulaan

to formally rebuke

• Bulgarian: осъждам (bg) ‎(osǎždam)

• Greek:

  Ancient: εὐθύνω ‎(euthúnō)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} décrier, ^{(please verify)} censurer

Related termsEdit

• censor
• censorial
• censorious
• censorship
• census

ReferencesEdit

• “censure” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000.
• “censure” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
• "censure" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

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FrenchEdit

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /sɑ̃.syʁ/

NounEdit

censure f ‎(plural censures)

1. censorship

VerbEdit

censure

1. first-person singular present indicative of censurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of censurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
5. second-person singular imperative of censurer

AnagramsEdit

• cénures

External linksEdit

• “censure” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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ItalianEdit

NounEdit

censure f

1. plural of censura

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LatinEdit

ParticipleEdit

cēnsūre

1. vocative masculine singular of cēnsūrus

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PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

censure

1. First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of censurar
2. Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você^?) present subjunctive of censurar
3. Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of censurar
4. Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of censurar

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SpanishEdit

VerbEdit

censure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of censurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of censurar.