Re: Censorship in America, Part II

["David Harley" <david.a.harley () gmail com>]

> Reviewing the Oxford Dictionary of English, censorship does 
> not require that the censor is governmental.
 
Do I dare get involved in a dictionary thread? :-/
 
The OED - well, the fairly elderly copy in my office - actually describes a
censor as an official with the power to suppress blah blah blah. 
 
Etymologically, it derives from "a magistrate in ancient Rome who held
censuses and supervised public morals), from censere 'assess'." Which I'd
say meets a definition of governmental from the same source - "the system by
which a state or community is governed."

And now I'm going back to some real work...

--
David Harley
AVIEN Administrator: http://www.avien.org 
http://www.smallblue-greenworld.co.uk 

 

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