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The office or power of a censor; as, to stand for a censorship. Holland. The press was not indeed at that moment under a general censorship. Macaulay.

ing government. They sit in the middle of the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer, between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right, and Left.

The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.

A military officer who commanded a minor division of the Roman army; a captain of a century. A centurion of the hand called the Italian band. Acts x. 1.

the Roman people formed according to their property, for the purpose of voting for civil officers.

sar, I never stood on ceremonies, Yet, now they fright me. Shak. Master of ceremonies, an officer who determines the forms to be observed, or superintends their observance, on a public occasion. -- Not to stand on ceremony, not to be ceremonious; to be familiar, outspoken, or bold.

s whether a person was absent in the army, this is tried by the certificate of the proper officer in writing, under his seal. Blackstone.

Formerly a chancery officer who fitted wax for sealing writs and other documents.

icial seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.

The office of a chairman of a meeting or organized body.

alleging a special cause, the sufficiency of which is to be left to those whose duty and office it is to decide upon it. -- Challenge to the polls, an exception taken to any one or more of the individual jurors returned. -- Peremptory challenge, a privilege sometimes allowed to defendants, of challenging a certain n…

An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.

Office if a chamberlain.

The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.

e 18th century. A chapeau bras is now worn in the United States army by general and staff officers.

A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.

The office, position, or station of a chaplain. Swift.

The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton.

Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.