Censure. It speaks ill for the charity of men’s judgments, that ‘censure,’ which designated once favourable and unfavourable judgments alike, is now restricted to unfavourable; for it must be that the latter, being by far the most frequent, have in this way appropriated the word exclusively to themselves.
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Shakespeare, Hamlet, act i. sc. 3.
His [Richard, Earl of Cornwall’s] voyage was variously censured; the Templars, who consented not to the peace, flouted thereat, as if all this while he had laboured about a difficult nothing; others thought he had abundantly satisfied any rational expectation.—Fuller, Holy War, b. iv. c. 8.
Which could not be past over without this censure; for it is an ill thrift to be parsimonious in the praise of that which is very good.—Hacket, Life of Archbishop Williams, part ii. p. 13.
Chaffer. Once, simply to buy, to make a bargain, now to higgle or dispute about the making of a bargain.
That no man overgo, nethir disseyve his brothir in chaffaring [in negotio, Vulg.].—1 Thess. iv. 6. Wiclif.
He comaundide his servauntis to be clepid, to whiche he hadde yive monei; to wite hou myche ech hadde wonne bi chaffaryng.—Luke xix. 15. Wiclif.
Where is the fayre flocke thou was wont to leade?
Or bene they chaffred, or at mischiefe dead?