census

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to conduct a census

   They censused the deer in the forest.

2. 2
   noun

   An official count or enumeration of members of a population (not necessarily human), usually residents or citizens in a particular region, often done at regular intervals.

   As you know, the Imperium has never been able to take a census of the Fremen. Everyone thinks that there are but few wandering here and there in the desert. My Lord, I suspect an incredible secret has been kept on this planet: that the Fremen exist in vast numbers- vast- and it is they who control Arrakis.

3. 3
   noun

   Count, tally.

   In what census of living creatures, the dead of mankind are included ...

4. 4
   verb

   To conduct a census on.

   Each page of the schedule was crossruled with 8 lines, capable of censussing 8 individuals.

Borrowed from Latin cēnsus, from cēnseō. See censor.

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