Obs. [f. CENSURE + -IST.] A professed or systematic censurer.
1627–8. Feltham, Resolves. The captious and critical censurist.
1641. I. H., Petit. agst. Pocklington, 5. He censures the Censurist for bold and impious.
1670. G. H., trans. Hist. Cardinals, 29. The pens of the Censurists, are like the head of Hercules his Hidra; cut one off, and there will succeed seven in its place, and those much worse than the former.
