different between censure vs interdict

English

Etymology

From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin cens?ra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censere (“to tax, assess, value, judge, consider, etc.”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?n.??/
  • (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /?s?ns.j??/, /?s?n.?(j)??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?n.??/

Noun

censure (countable and uncountable, plural censures)

1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
2. An official reprimand.
3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     excommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure

4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

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Verb

censure (third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)

1. To criticize harshly.

2. To formally rebuke.
3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.

   • Should I say more, you might well censure me a flatterer.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:reprehend

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References

• “censure”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “censure” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "censure" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Anagrams

• encurse

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.sy?/

Etymology 1

From Latin c?ns?ra.

Noun

censure f (plural censures)

1. censorship

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

censure

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of censurer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
3. second-person singular imperative of censurer

Further reading

• “censure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cénures

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??en?su.re/
• Rhymes: -ure

Noun

censure f

1. plural of censura

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ken?su?.re/, [k???s?u???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??en?su.re/, [t???n?su???]

Participle

c?ns?re

1. vocative masculine singular of c?ns?rus

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: cen?su?re

Verb

censure

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of censurar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of censurar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of censurar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of censurar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?en?su?e/, [??n?su.?e]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /sen?su?e/, [s?n?su.?e]

Verb

censure

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censurar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censurar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of censurar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of censurar.

English

Etymology

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interd?c? (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + d?c? (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey?-.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): (noun) /??nt?d?kt/, (verb) /?nt??d?kt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): (noun) /??nt?d?kt/, (verb) /?nt??d?kt/
• Hyphenation: in?ter?dict

Noun

interdict (plural interdicts)

1. A papal decree prohibiting the administration of the sacraments from a political entity under the power of a single person (e.g., a king or an oligarchy with similar powers). Extreme unction/Anointing of the Sick is excepted.
2. (Scotland, law) An injunction.

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Verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

1. (transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict. [from 13th c.]
   • 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon juris canonici Anglicani

     An archbishop [may not only] excommunicate and interdict his suffragans, but his Vicar-General may also do the same.

2. (transitive) To forbid (an action or thing) by formal or legal sanction. [from 16th c.]
3. (transitive) To forbid (someone) from doing something. [from 16th c.]
4. (transitive, US, military) To impede (an enemy); to interrupt or destroy (enemy communications, supply lines etc). [from 20th c.]
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 756:

     Grant did not cease his efforts to interdict Lee's supply lines and break through the defenses.

Related terms

• interdiction
• interdictive
• interdictory
• interdictively
• interdictor

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