Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CEN-SO'RI-OUS, a.

1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; often implying ill-nature, illiberality, or uncharitableness; as, a censorious critic.
2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

CEN-SO'RI-OUS-LY, adv.

In a censorious manner.

CEN-SO'RI-OUS-NESS, n.

1. Disposition to blame and condemn; the habit of censuring or reproaching. – Taylor.
2. The quality of being censorious.

CEN'SOR-LIKE, a.

Censorious.

CEN'SOR-SHIP, n.

The office or dignity of a censor; the time during which a censor holds his office.

CENS'U-AL, a. [L. censualis.]

Relating to, or containing a census; liable to be rated. – Whitaker. Encyc.

CENS'U-RA-BLE, a. [See Censure.]

Worthy of censure; blamable: culpable; reprehensible; faulty; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct or writings. – Locke.

CENS'U-RA-BLE-NESS, n.

Blamableness; fitness to be censured. – Whitlock.

CENS'U-RA-BLY, adv.

In a manner worthy of blame.

CENS'URE, n. [cen'shur ; L. censura; Fr. censure; Sp. Port. and It. censura; from L. censeo, censor.]

1. 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. 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. – Encyc.

CENS'URE, v.i.

To judge. [Not in use.]

CENS'URE, v.t. [cen'shur; Fr. censurer; Sp. censurar.]

1. 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. – Buckminster.
2. To condemn by a judicial sentence, as in ecclesiastical affairs.
3. To estimate. [Not in use.] – Shak.

CENS'UR-ED, pp.

Blamed; reproved; condemned.

CENS'UR-ING, n.

A blaming; reproach.

CENS'UR-ING, ppr.

Blaming; finding fault with; condemning.

CENS'US, n. [L. from censeo. See Cense.]

1. In ancient Rome, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the citizens, of their names and places of abode. This declaration was registered, and contained an enumeration of all their lands and estates, their quantity and quality, with the wives, children, domestics, tenants, and slaves, of each citizen. Hence the word signifies this enumeration or register, a man's whole substance, and the tax imposed according to each man's property.
2. In the United States of America, an enumeration of the inhabitants of all the States, taken by order of the Congress, to furnish the rule of apportioning the representation among the States, and the number of representatives to which each state is entitled in the Congress; also, an enumeration of the inhabitants of a State, taken by order of its legislature.

CENT, n. [Fr. cent; Sp. ciento; Port. cento; It. cento; from L. centum, formed on the Celtic, W. cant, Arm. cant, Corn. kanz. The Welch cant, signifies a circle, hoop, wheel or rim, a wattled fence round a yard or corn-floor, hence a complete circle, a hundred. It is probable that the Teutonic and Gothic hund, in hundred, is the same word. Ar. هَنْدٌ handon, a hundred, and the same root gives India, Hindu. See Hundred.]

1. A hundred. In commerce, per cent. denotes a certain rate by the hundred; as, ten per cent is ten in the hundred, whether profit or loss. This rate is called percentage.
2. In the United States of America, a copper coin whose value is the hundredth part of a dollar.

CENT'AGE, n.

Rate by the cent or hundred.

CEN'TAUR, n. [L. centaurus; Gr. κενταυρος. Qu. κεντεω, to spur, and ταυρος, a bull.]

1. In mythology, a fabulous being, supposed to be half man and half horse. It has been supposed that this fancied monster originated among the Lapithæ, a tribe in Thessaly, who first invented the art of breaking horses. But the origin of the fable and of the name is doubtful.
2. Part of a southern constellation, in form of a centaur, usually joined with the wolf, containing thirty-five stars; the Archer. – Encyc.

CEN'TAUR-IZE, v.i.

To perform the acts of, or to be like a centaur; to be a man and act like a brute. – Young.

CEN'TAUR-LIKE, a.

Having the appearance of a centaur. Sidney.

CEN'TAU-RY, n. [L. centaurea; Gr. κενταυρεον.]

The popular name of various plants. The lesser centaury is a species of Erythræa.

CEN-TE-NA'RI-AN, n.

A person a hundred years old.

CENT'EN-A-RY, a.

Relating to a hundred; consisting of a hundred.

CENT'EN-A-RY, n. [L. centenarius, from centum, a hundred.]

The number of an hundred; as, a centenary of years.