Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 1976 supplement.
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Quotation dates: 1700-1704, 1799, 1882-1927
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CENSOR, n. The title of an official in a University or school (see quots.); “still the term used in George Heriot's School” (Edb.1 1939). Known to Fif.10, Lnk.3 1939. Also “applied to the head of a department in Dundee High School when acting as headmaster, as was done by these heads in rotation before the appointment of a Rector” (Ags.2 1939).The word was used in some of the classes at Aberdeen University for a student entrusted with keeping the attendance roll till about 1938.Abd. 1700 H. F. M. Simpson Bon-Record (1906) 167:
Censors of such as speak English prophain talk, or swearing throughout the severall factions . . . Some fitt persone to be Janitor who is to officiat instead of the publict Censor.Abd. 1799 Stat. Acc.1 XXI. App. 90:
The bursars . . . are in their turns the censors in their respective classes, which office obliges them to mark those who are absent at the hours of teaching, or who are guilty of any other act of delinquency.Abd. 1882 Francisque-Michel 145:
Censor, whose office, in the Aberdeen University . . . was to keep the register of attendances of the students.Abd. 1905 E.D.D. Suppl.:
[The censor's office] at Abd. Grammar School, [was] to call the roll of scholars.Edb. 1704 Univ. Edb. Statutes (Morgan 1937) 159:
The censors are to be faithfull in ther dewtie to admonish delinquents and to delaite them.Gsw. 1927 D. Murray Old College of Glasgow 152:
The duty of the one censor [c.1840] was to call the roll . . . known as the “Catalogue” . . .; the other censor had the correct title of the written exercises for the week, so that he could give it to anyone who required the information, teste me ipso having held the office of Censor of the Names.
