| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To reproach, rebuke or blame.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. To criticize, carp, deprecate or animadvert. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To libel or slander. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To reprove, chide, scold, berate or admonish. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To condemn or reprobate. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To abuse or inveigh. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. To vilify, decry, defame or disparage.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Present participle conjugation of the verb censure.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (censure) | 1. Rebuke formally.[Wordnet]. 2. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.[Websters]. 3. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.[Websters]. 4. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.[Websters]. 5. To judge.[Websters]. 6. Base verb from the following inflections: censuring, censured, censures, censurer, censurers, censuringly and censuredly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CENSURING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Specialty Definition: censure
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The act of blaming or finding fault and condemning as wrong; applicable to the moral conduct, or to the works of men. When applied to persons, it is nearly equivalent to blame, reproof, reprehension, reprimand. It is an expression of disapprobation, which often implies reproof.. | 2: [Noun] Judicial sentence; judgment that condemns. An ecclesiastical censure is a sentence of condemnation, or penalty inflicted on a member of a church for mal-conduct, by which he is deprived of the communion of the church, or prohibited from executing the sacerdotal office.. | 3: [Verb] To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of; as, to censure a man, or his manners, or his writings. We laugh at vanity, oftener than we censure pride.. | 4: [Verb] To condemn by a judicial sentence, as in ecclesiastical affairs.. | 5: [Verb] To estimate.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Wikipedic | Censure is a process by which a formal reprimand is issued to an individual by an authoritative body. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] an official reprimand. (references) | 2: [Noun] the act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension. (references) | 3: [Noun] the state of excommunication. (references) | 4: [Verb] to criticize harshly. (references) | 5: [Verb] to formally rebuke. (references) |
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Topics by Level of Interest: censure | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Censure in the United States | 16 | Censure | 10 | |
| Censure | 10 | Censure in the United States | 16 | |
| Theological censure | 4 | Theological censure | 4 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
