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

Belonging to a censor, or to the correction of public morals. Junius.

Censorial. [R.] Bacon.

Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks.

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.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

A vessel used in alchemy to extract oils.

A kindler of anger or enmity; an inciter.

The vessel in which incense is burned and offered; a censer; a thurible. [R.] Evelyn.

Approbation; sanction. A censor . . . without whose approval nTemple.

Attributing blame or fault; implying or conveying censure; faultfinding; censorious. Chaucer. -- Blame"ful*ly, adv. -- Blame"ful*ness, n.

Fault-finding; censorious caviling. See Captious. -- Carp"ing*ly, adv.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting. O gentle lady, do not put me to 't, For I am nothing, if not critical. Shak.

believe in the evil eye. J. H. Newman. -- Evil speaking, speaking ill of others; calumny; censoriousness. -- The evil one, the Devil; Satan.

One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor. "Hypercritics in English poetry." Dryden.

A license to print or publish a book, paper, etc.; also, in countries subjected to the censorship of the press, approval of that which is published.

l and inquisitorial abuse." F. Blackburne. He conferred on it a kind of inquisitorial and censorious power even over the laity, and directed it to inquire into all matters of conscience. Hume.

A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. [Obs.] Bailey.

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- with against; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs, morals, a law, an abuse. All men inveighed against him; all m…