Also 6 censorer. [f. CENSURE v. + -ER1.] One who censures.
† 1. = CENSOR sb. 1, 2. Obs.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1589), 206. Cato, being the Censurer of the election.
1621. Bk. Discip. Ch. Scot., 89. Some to be censurers of the manners of the people.
† 2. A judge, a critic. Obs.
1575–85. Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 106. To be favourable censurers of our brethren.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., IX. 454. How can I … bee a iust and equall censurer of such diuine Beauties.
1661. Origen’s Opin., in Phœnix (1721), I. 81. As candid and equal a Censurer as you are.
3. One who finds fault, blames or condemns.
1586. T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., To Rdr. Like to malicious censorers.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1720), III. XI. 184. A free Speaker and Censurer of their affected behaviour.
1724. Swift, Riddle. I’m too profuse, some cens’rers cry.
1751. Johnson, Rambl., No. 165, ¶ 7. My opponents and censurers tacitly confessing their despair.
1882. A. W. Ward, Dickens, vii. 205. That Dickens had such a manner his most supercilious censurer will readily allow.
