different between impeachment vs censure

English

Etymology

From Middle English empechement (“hindrance, impediment, obstacle, obstruction; legal accusation or charge; act of calling into question or discrediting; challenge to a claim or right”), and thence either:

• from Middle English empechen, empeschen, empesche, enpechen, impechen (“to cause to get stuck; of a ship: to run aground; to block, obstruct; to hinder, impede; to prevent; to interfere with, harm; to criticize, disparage; to bring charges against; to formally accuse of treason or another high crime”) (from Anglo-Norman empecher, Old French empechier, empeechier) + -ment (suffix forming action nouns, concrete nouns, and nouns indicating a result or a condition or state); or
• from Old French empechement, empeechement, empeschement (“obstacle”) (modern French empêchement (“impediment, obstacle”)), from empeechier (“to fetter; to hinder”), empescher (“to inhibit, prevent”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns from verbs).

The English word is analysable as impeach +? -ment.

Old French empechier, empeechier and empescher (compare modern French empêcher) are derived from Late Latin impedic?re (“to catch; to entangle”), present active infinitive of Latin impedic? (“to entangle; to fetter”), from im- (variant of in-) + pedica (“fetter, shackle; snare, trap”) (from p?s (“foot”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ped- (“to step, walk; to fall, stumble”)) + -?.

In senses 1.2 (“accusation that a person has committed a crime”) and 1.3 (“act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct”), the word has been used in place of Latin impetere, the present active infinitive of impet? (“to assail, attack, rush upon”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?pi?t?m?nt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /im?pit?m?nt/
• Hyphenation: im?peach?ment

Noun

impeachment (countable and uncountable, plural impeachments)

1. (countable) The act of calling into question or challenging the accuracy or propriety of something.

   Synonyms: deprecation, depreciation, discrediting, disparagement

   1. (countable, law) A demonstration in a court of law, or before another finder of fact, that a witness was ingenuine before, and is therefore less likely to tell the truth now.
   2. (countable, law, Britain) An accusation that a person has committed a crime against the state, such as treason.
   3. (countable, law, chiefly US) The act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, especially if serious, often with the aim of having the official dismissed from office.
2. (uncountable) The state of being impeached.
3. (uncountable, archaic) Hindrance; impediment; obstruction.

Alternative forms

• empeachment (obsolete)

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Polish: impeachment
• ? Russian: ?????????? (impí?ment)
  • ? Kazakh: ????????? (ïmpïçment)
• ? Spanish: impeachment

Translations

References

Further reading

• impeachment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From English impeachment, originally to refer to the United States; doublet of French empêchement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im.pit?.m?nt/

Noun

impeachment m (plural impeachments)

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct, in the United States and other countries)

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English impeachment.

Noun

impeachment m (invariable)

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching a public official)

   Synonym: messa in stato di accusa

Polish

Etymology

From English impeachment, from Middle English empechement.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?p?it??.m?nt/

Noun

impeachment m inan

1. (law) impeachment (act of impeaching or charging a public official with misconduct)
2. (law) impeachment (state of being impeached)

Declension

Further reading

• impeachment in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• impeachment in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Etymology

English impeachment

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /im?pit??ment/, [?m?pit??.m?n?t?]

Noun

impeachment m (plural impeachments)

1. impeachment (political trial) (especially in reference to the political systems of English-speaking countries)

   Synonyms: destitución, impugnación

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.

Related terms

Translations

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

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)

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.