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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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sentence
English
Etymology
Borrowing from Middle French sentence, from Latin sententia (“way of thinking, opinion, sentiment”), from senti?ns, present participle of senti? (“to feel, think”); see sentient, sentience, sense, scent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nt?ns/
- (General American) IPA(key): [?s?ntn?t?s], [?s?n?n?t?s]
- (General American) IPA(key): [?s?ntn?t?s], [?s?n?n?t?s]
- Hyphenation: sen?tence
Noun
sentence (plural sentences)
- (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
- The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
- (obsolete) A saying, especially from a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th-19th c.]
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 206:
- I am told that she writes well, and that all her letters are full of sentences.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 206:
- (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. [from 15th c.]
- (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
- (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
- (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- Noght o word spak he moore than was neede,
- And that was seyd in forme and reverence
- And short and quyk and ful of hy sentence ...
- 1649, John Milton, Eikonoklastes:
- now to the discourse itself, voluble enough, and full of sentence, but that, for the most part, either specious rather than solid, or to his cause nothing pertinent.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales. General Prologue:
- (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th-17th c.]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II:
- My sentence is for open war.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book II:
- (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation
- By them [Luther's works] we might pass sentence upon his doctrines.
- 1687, Francis Atterbury, An Answer to some Considerations, the Spirit of Martin Luther and the Original of the Reformation
Synonyms
- verdict
- conviction
Hypernyms
- (logic): formula
Hyponyms
- (grammar): affirmative sentence, complex sentence, compound sentence, conditional sentence, simple sentence
Related terms
- sentential
Translations
Verb
sentence (third-person singular simple present sentences, present participle sentencing, simple past and past participle sentenced)
- To declare a sentence on a convicted person; to doom; to condemn to punishment.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,
- (obsolete) To decree or announce as a sentence.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (obsolete) To utter sententiously.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Feltham to this entry?)
Translations
Further reading
- sentence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- sentence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?s?nt?nt?s?]
- Hyphenation: sen?ten?ce
Noun
sentence f
- sentence (formula with no free variables)
- sentence (grammar)
Declension
Synonyms
- (grammar): v?ta
French
Etymology
From Old French sentence, from Latin sententia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.t??s/
Noun
sentence f (plural sentences)
- sentence
- verdict
- maxim, saying, adage
Latvian
Noun
sentence f (5th declension)
- aphorism
- maxim
Declension
Synonyms
- aforisms
- domu grauds
Middle French
Etymology
From Latin sententia.
Noun
sentence f (plural sentences)
- sentence (judgement; verdict)
- sentence (grammatically complete series of words)
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