different between censorious vs insectator

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n?s??i?s/

Adjective

censorious (comparative more censorious, superlative most censorious)

1. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
2. Implying or expressing censure.

Translations

References

• censorious in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• censorious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• coenurosis

English

Etymology

From Latin insectari (“to pursue”), frequentative from insequi. See ensue.

Noun

insectator (plural insectators)

1. (obsolete) A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic.

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Anagrams

• anticorset, carnotites

Latin

Verb

?nsect?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of ?nsector
2. third-person singular future active imperative of ?nsector

References

• insectator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• insectator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• insectator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette