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censure
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)
- The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
- An official reprimand.
- Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
- 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation
- excommunication […] being the chief ecclesiastical censure
- 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation
- (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.
Related terms
Translations
Verb
censure (third-person singular simple present censures, present participle censuring, simple past and past participle censured)
- To criticize harshly.
- To formally rebuke.
- (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
Translations
Related terms
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)
- censorship
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
censure
- first/third-person singular present indicative of censurer
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of censurer
- 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
- 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
- vocative masculine singular of c?ns?rus
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: cen?su?re
Verb
censure
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of censurar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of censurar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of censurar
- 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
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of censurar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of censurar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of censurar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of censurar.
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reject
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English rejecten, from Latin r?iectus, past participle of r?icere (“to throw back”), from r?- (“back”) + iacere (“to throw”). Displaced native Middle English forwerpen (“to reject”) (from Old English forweorpan), Middle English forcasten (“to reject, throw away”) (from Old Norse forkasta), Middle English skirpen (“to reject, spew out”) (from Old Norse skirpa (“to reject, spit out”)), Middle English wernen (“to refuse, reject”) (from Old English wiernan (“to refuse, reject”)), Middle English withchosen, withchesen (“to reject, choose against”) (from Old English wiþ??osan (“to reject”)).
Pronunciation
- (verb) enPR: r?j?kt?, IPA(key): /???d??kt/
- (noun) enPR: r??j?kt, IPA(key): /??i?d??kt/
- Hyphenation: re?ject
- Rhymes: -?kt
Verb
reject (third-person singular simple present rejects, present participle rejecting, simple past and past participle rejected)
- (transitive) To refuse to accept.
- (basketball) To block a shot, especially if it sends the ball off the court.
- To refuse a romantic advance.
Synonyms
- (refuse to accept): decline, refuse, turn down, repudiate, disown, abnegate, abjure, deny
Antonyms
- (refuse to accept): accept, take up
Translations
Noun
reject (plural rejects)
- Something that is rejected.
- (derogatory slang) An unpopular person.
- (colloquial) a rejected defective product in a production line.
- (aviation) A rejected takeoff.
Synonyms
- (something that is rejected): castaway
- (an unpopular person): outcast, castaway, alien
- (rejected takeoff): RTO
Related terms
- rejection
Translations
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