Censure /(?)/

1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. [Obs.]

   Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame.

   Both the censure and the praise were merited.

3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.

   Excommunication or other censure of the church.

imp. & p. p. Censured; p. pr. & vb. n. Censuring

1. To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge. [Obs.]
2. To find fault with and condemn as wrong; to blame; to express disapprobation of.

   I may be censured that nature thus gives way to loyalty.

3. To condemn or reprimand by a judicial or ecclesiastical sentence.

1. To judge. [Obs.]