censualt (senshoal)

[= F. censuel = Sp. censual = Pg. censual = It. censuale, IMG:content-0016.png:[blocks in formation] Middle ton, More Di emblers Besides Women, i. 2. This work and myself I humbly present to your approved censure, it being the utmost of my wishes to have your honourable self my weighty and perspicuous comment. Webster, Ded. to Duche of Malfi. 2t. Judicial sentence; formal condemnation. To you, lord governor, Remains the censure of this hellish villain; The time, the place, the torture. Shak ., Othello, v. 2. 3. Eccles., a penalty imposed upon an offender. It may consist in public rebuke or in temporary or permanent suspension from communion or from office. See dis cipline. The time being expired that Mr. John Lyford's censure was to take place, he was so far from answering their hopes by amendment, as he had doubled his evil. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 122. 4. The act of criticizing, especially of finding fault; criticism; expre ion of blame or disapprobation; faultfinding; condemnation; ani mad version. What ever the actions of Princes are, they are liable to the censures of the people. Stilling fleet , Sermons, I. vii. (1670). Pope , Epil. to Satires, ii. 113. To 'scape my censure , not expect my praise. In minds unstrengthened by right culture there is a perverse belief that they can only raise themselves by lowering whatever stands beside them. Therefore, when all the world turned critical before the schoolmaster was well abroad, censure, that simply meant expre ion of opinion, with a sense even of some admitted value to be ascertained, came to mean chiefly or only condemnation. 51. A custom which formerly prevailed in several manors in Cornwall and Devons hire, England, by which all the inhabitants above the age of sixteen were summoned to swear fealty to the lord of the manor, to pay eleven pence J. Morley. cent. officially; it is the act of one having authority. To censure is to expre an unfavorable opinion; it is le pérsonal than the previous terms. Remonstrate with and expostu late with are more argumentative and imply more of advice than either reprove or censure; they also apply only to acts now taking place or about to take place, while cen sure applies only to what is past. To reproach a person is to lay blame upon him in direct addre , and with feeling, to endeavor to shame him with what he has done. The words advance in the degree of likelihood that the person reproved, etc., does not admit the fault for which he is taken to task. See the distinction of corresponding nouns under admonition. II.t in trans. To pa an opinion, especially a severe opinion; judge: followed by of or on. Amongst the rest that censured of her curious fauours, there was one Signor Bernardo. Greene, Never too Late (Dyce ed.), Int., p. xxi. 'Tis a pa ing shame, That I, unworthy body as I am, Should censure thus on lovely gentlemen. Shak., T. G. of V., i. 2. censurer (sen'shör-ér), n. One who censures. A statesman, who is po e ed of real merit, should look upon his political censurers with the same neglect that a good writer regards his critics. Add is on .