Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.