CENSORIOUSLY
CENSORIOUSLY, adverb In a censorious manner.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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CENSORIOUSNESS
CENSORIOUSNESS, noun1. Disposition to blame and condemn; the habit o censuring or reproaching.2. The quality of being censorious.
CENSORSHIP
CENSORSHIP, noun The office or dignity of a censor; the time during which a censor holds his office.
CENSUAL
CENSUAL, adjective Relating to, or containing a census; liable to be rated.
CENSURABLE
CENSURABLE, adjective [See Censure.] Worthy of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensibly; faulty; as a censurable person, or censurable conduct or writings.
CENSURABLENESS
CENSURABLENESS, noun Blamableness; fitness to be censured.
CENSURABLEY
CENSURABLEY, adverb In a manner worthy of blame.
CENSURE
CENSURE, noun1. The act of blaming or finding fault and condemning as wrong; applicable to the moral conduct, or to the works of men. When applied to persons, it is nearly equiv...
CENSURED
CENSURED, participle passive Blaming; finding fault with; condemning.
CENSUS
CENSUS, noun1. In ancient Rome, an authentic declaration made before the censors, by the citizens, of their names and places of abode. This declaration was registered, and conta...
CENT
CENT, noun1. A hundred. In commerce, per cent denotes a certain rate by the hundred; as, ten per cent Is ten in the hundred, whether profit or loss. This rate is called percenta...
CENTAGE
CENTAGE, noun Rate by the cent or hundred.
CENTAUR
CENTAUR, noun1. In mythology, a fabulous being, supposed to be half man and half horse. It has been supposed that this fancied monster originated among the Lapithae, a tribe in ...
CENTAURLIKE
CENTAURLIKE, adjective Having the appearance of a centaur.
CENTAURY
CENTAURY, noun The name of a plant, and a genus of plants, of numerous species. The lesser centaury is a species of Gentiana. centaury bears the popular names of knapweed, blueb...
CENTENARY
CENTENARY, noun The number of a hundred; as a centenary of years.CENTENARY, adjective Relating to a hundred; consisting of a hundred.
CENTENNIAL
CENTENNIAL, adjective1. Consisting of a hundred yeas, or completing that term.2. Pertaining to a hundred years.3. Happening every hundred years.
CENTER
CENTER, noun1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure or body; the middle point or place.2. The middle or central object. In an army, the body of troops ...
CENTERED
CENTERED, participle passive Collected to a point or center; fixed on a central point.
CENTERING
CENTERING, participle present tense Placing on the center; collecting to a point.
CENTESIMAL
CENTESIMAL, adjective The hundredth. As a noun, the next step of progression after decimal in the arithmetic of fractions.
CENTESIMATION
CENTESIMATION, noun A military punishment, for desertion, mutiny or the like, where one person in a hundred is selected for execution.
CENTESM
CENTESM, noun The hundredth part of an integer or thing.
CENTIFOLIOUS
CENTIFOLIOUS, adjective Having a hundred leaves.
CENTIGRADE
CENTIGRADE, adjective Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundred divisions or equal parts; as a centigrade thermometer.
CENTIGRAM
CENTIGRAM, noun In French Measure, the hundredth part of a gram. [see Gram.]
CENTILITER
CENTILITER, noun The hundredth part of a liter, a little more than 6-10 of a cubic inch.