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censor (sĕn`sər), title of two magistrates of ancient Rome (from c.443 B.C. to the time of Domitian). They took the census (by which they assessed taxation, voting, and military service) and supervised public behavior. They also had charge of public works and filled vacancies among the senators and knights. censorIn ancient eastern Asia, a government official whose primary duty was to scrutinize the conduct of officials and rulers. During the Qin (221–206 BC) and Han (206 BC–AD 220) dynasties, the censor's function was to criticize the emperor's acts, but in later periods the censorate was expanded and became an instrument for imperial control of the bureaucracy. Censors checked important documents, supervised construction projects, reviewed judicial proceedings, kept watch over state property, and looked for cases of subversion and corruption. censor 1. (in republican Rome) either of two senior magistrates elected to keep the list of citizens up to date, control aspects of public finance, and supervise public morals 2. Psychoanal the postulated factor responsible for regulating the translation of ideas and desires from the unconscious to the conscious mind |
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Fallen Angels, third of the 1988 trio, could stand as the representative American book about the Vietnam war (largely shorn, as is Myers's wont, of censorable language). These nature-oriented postcards stood between pornography, science, and tourism and were less censorable because the ideas implicit in them had been completely normalized in late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Britain. For that matter, since violence or sex are by no means the only types of content that might corrupt character, there's no particular reason why censorable categories should remain limited to those two. |
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