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precensor

verb

Etymology

From pre- + censor.

  1. derived from *ḱens-✻ — “to announce, proclaim; to put in order”
  2. borrowed from cēnsor — “magistrate; critic”
  3. prefixed as precensor — “pre + censor”

Definitions

  1. To censor in advance.

    • On April 29, 1953, a move was announced that would precensor all stories and scripts before they even reached the sets so that an "unlikely" story would not be passed by the precensor board.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for precensor. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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