n. [ LL., from p. p. accensus. See Accend. ] (R. C. Ch.) One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. censor, fr. censere to value, tax. ] 1. (Antiq.) One of two magistrates of Rome who took a register of the number and property of citizens, and who also exercised the office of inspector of morals and conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One given to fault-finding; a censurer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor can the most circumspect attention, or steady rectitude, escape blame from censors who have no inclination to approve. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A critic; a reviewer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Received with caution by the censors of the press. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. suppressed or subjected to censorship; as, the censored press in some countries. Opposite of uncensored. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full of censure; censorious. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censorial declamation of Juvenal. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Censorial. [ R. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. censorius pertaining to the censor. See Censor. ] 1. Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be consorious of his neighbors. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

Syn. -- Fault-finding; carping; caviling; captious; severe; condemnatory; hypercritical.

-- Cen*so"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Cen*so"ri*ous*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who comprehends; one who has attained to a full knowledge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When I shall have dispatched this weary pilgrimage, and from a traveler shall come to be a comprehensor, farewell faith and welcome vision. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Defenser. ] 1. A defender. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A defender or an advocate in court; a guardian or protector. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Eccl.) The patron of a church; an officer having charge of the temporal affairs of a church. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. defensorius. ] Tending to defend; defensive; as, defensory preparations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. descensorium: cf. OF. descensoire. See Descend. ] A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., one who stretches. See Extend. ] (Anat.) A muscle which serves to extend or straighten any part of the body, as an arm or a finger; -- opposed to flexor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the ability to perceive or gain information about external facts or events by means other than the senses. the existence of such an ability, as well as other parapsychologial phenomena, is widely disbelieved among scientists, and no demonstration of the phenomenon satisfyng rigorous standards of scientific proof has been reported. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. ] A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Incensories [ LL. incensorium: cf. F. encensoir. See 2d Incense, and cf. Censer. ] The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n.; pl. L. -soria E. -sories [ NL. ostensorium: cf. F. ostensoir. See Ostensible. ] (R. C. Ch.) Same as Monstrance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adapted to seize or grasp; prehensile. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing reproof; reprehensive; as, reprehensory complaint. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sensory; as, the sensor nerves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. sensorial. See Sensorium. ] Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Sensoriums L. Sensoria [ L., fr. sentire, sensum, to discern or perceive by the senses. ] (Physiol.) The seat of sensation; the nervous center or centers to which impressions from the external world must be conveyed before they can be perceived; the place where external impressions are localized, and transformed into sensations, prior to being reflected to other parts of the organism; hence, the whole nervous system, when animated, so far as it is susceptible of common or special sensations. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Concerned both in sensation and volition; -- applied to those nerve fibers which pass to and from the cerebro-spinal axis, and are respectively concerned in sensation and volition. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sensories (Physiol.) Same as Sensorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to the sensorium or sensation; as, sensory impulses; -- especially applied to those nerves and nerve fibers which convey to a nerve center impulses resulting in sensation; also sometimes loosely employed in the sense of afferent, to indicate nerve fibers which convey impressions of any kind to a nerve center. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. ] 1. A suspensory. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) The cord which suspends the embryo; and which is attached to the radicle in the young state; the proembryo. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Suspensoria [ NL. ] (Anat.) Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, the mandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilages representing them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with the skull in most vertebrates below mammals. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Suspended; hanging; depending. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fitted or serving to suspend; suspending; as, a suspensory muscle. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a suspensorium. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. suspensoir, suspensoire. ] That which suspends, or holds up, as a truss; specifically (Med.), a bandage or bag for supporting the scrotum. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL. See Tension. ] 1. (Anat.) A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor. [ 1913 Webster ]