censure

Etymology

From 1350–1400 Middle English censure, from Old French, from Latin censūra (“censor's office or assessment”), from censēre (“to consider, to assess, to value, to judge, to tax, etc.”).

noun

1. The act of blaming, criticizing, or condemning as wrong; reprehension.
2. An official reprimand.
3. Judicial or ecclesiastical sentence or reprimand; condemnatory judgment.
4. (obsolete) Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion.

verb

1. To criticize harshly.
   The Woodwalton signalman, Rose, who was severely censured in Captain Tyler's report, behaved with great negligence. 1946 January and February, T. S. Lascelles, “A Series of False Signals”, in Railway Magazine, page 43
2. To formally rebuke.
3. (obsolete) To form or express a judgment in regard to; to estimate; to judge.