Censeo, censes, censui, censum, censêre. Plaut.To suppose: to thinke good: to shew his opinion or sentence: to deterinine: to be discontent: to speake or tell: to number or muster the people either for warres or for taskes.Magoopere censeo desistas.Cic.I am earnestly of this opinion that ye should cease.Magnopere censeo properandum tibi esse Romam.Cic.Sentire & censere.Cic.Censebat vt Pompeius in suas prouincias proflcisceretur. Cæsar. De ea re ita censeo.Cic.My opinion is this. Censere dicitur Senatus, & Populus iubere.Liu.To thinke good. Censere.Plaut.To speake or tell. Censeri. Ci. To be nÛbred, mustred, valued, cesfed, or praisedNe absens censeare, curabo.Cic.Prædia censere.Cic. Modum agri censeri. Cic. Censeor, censêris, census sum, censéri. Verbum deponefis. Idem quod censere. Cice. To enroll in the Censoures tables. Censeri.Cic.To be had in estimation: to be set by: to be marueiled at.Censere atqueæstimare.Cic.Laude alicuius censeri. Claud.
censor, ōris, m. [1. censeo; cf. also Umbr. censtur; Sanscr. canster, leader, governor], a censor, a Roman magistrate, of whom there were two, chosen orig. every five, and afterwards every one and a half years, who at first only had the charge of the Roman people and their property, in respect to their division according to rank or circumstances; but gradually came to the exercise of the office of censor of morals and conduct, and punished the moral or political crimes of those of higher rank by consigning them to a lower order (senatu movebant, equiti equum adimebant, civem tribu movebant, in aerarios referebant, aerarium faciebant, etc.; cf aerarius, A. b., which punishment of the censor, whether inflicted in consequence of a judicium turpe, acc. to a tribunal authorized therefor, or in accordance with the decision of the censors themselves, was called animadversio censoria or ignominia = a)timi/a). They also, even from the most ancient times, let out the tolls, public saltworks, the building and repairing of public works, the procuring of victims for public sacrifice, etc.; cf. Cic. Leg. 3, 3, 7; Liv. 4, 8, 7; Nieb. Röm. Gesch. 2, p. 446 sq.; Dict. of Antiq., art. censor.—Also in the Roman colonies and provinces there were censors, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 53, 131; and id. ib. 2, 2, 56, 138 sq.: censor, id. Clu. 14, 41; Liv. 29, 15, 10; 29, 37, 7 (in later Lat. called censitor, q. v.).—II.Trop., a rigid judge of morals, a censurer, critic: pertristis quidam patruus, censor, magister, Cic. Cael. 11, 25: castigator censorque minorum, Hor. A. P. 174: cum tabulis animum censoris sumet honesti, id. Ep. 2, 2, 110; Ov. P. 4, 12, 25: factorum dictorumque, Sen. Vit. Beat. 20, 4: servis erilis imperii non censor est, sed minister, id. Exc. Contr. 3, 9, 4: Sallustius gravissimus alienae luxuriae objurgator et censor, Macr. S. 2, 9, 9.—As fem.: ita fides prompta dura sui censor est, Ambros. Ep. 10, 83.