Census

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Census \Cen"sus\, n. [L. census, fr. censere. See {Censor}.]
     1. (Bot. Antiq.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of
        their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; --
        usually made once in five years.
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     2. An official registration of the number of the people, the
        value of their estates, and other general statistics of a
        country.
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     Note: A general census of the United States was first taken
           in 1790, and one has been taken at the end of every ten
           years since.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  census
       n : a period count of the population [syn: {nose count}, {nosecount}]
       v : conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "census":
     account, accounting, accounts, agenda, assemblage, assembly,
     beadroll, body count, cadastre, calendar, call-up, canvass,
     capitulation, census report, checklist, checkroll, code,
     collection, colligation, collocation, combination, comparison,
     composition, concourse, concurrence, confluence, conflux,
     congregation, constituents, content, contents, convergence,
     corralling, count, counting, dactylonomy, data-gathering, digest,
     divisions, docket, dramatis personae, elements, enumeration,
     foliation, gathering, guts, head count, honor roll, index,
     ingathering, ingredients, innards, insides, inventory,
     inventorying, items, junction, jury list, jury panel,
     juxtaposition, lineup, list, measurement, mobilization, muster,
     muster roll, nose count, numbering, numeration, order of business,
     pagination, part, parts, poll, program, property roll,
     quantification, quantization, questionnaire, recapitulation,
     reckoning, recount, recounting, rehearsal, repertory, returns,
     rodeo, roll, roll call, roster, rota, roundup, scroll, statement,
     summary, summation, summing, summing up, survey, table,
     table of organization, tallying, tax roll, telling, whole
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Census
     There are five instances of a census of the Jewish people having
     been taken. (1.) In the fourth month after the Exodus, when the
     people were encamped at Sinai. The number of men from twenty
     years old and upward was then 603,550 (Ex. 38:26). (2.) Another
     census was made just before the entrance into Canaan, when the
     number was found to be 601,730, showing thus a small decrease
     (Num. 26:51). (3.) The next census was in the time of David,
     when the number, exclusive of the tribes of Levi and Benjamin,
     was found to be 1,300,000 (2 Sam. 24:9; 1 Chr. 21:5). (4.)
     Solomon made a census of the foreigners in the land, and found
     153,600 able-bodied workmen (2 Chr. 2:17, 18). (5.) After the
     return from Exile the whole congregation of Israel was numbered,
     and found to amount to 42,360 (Ezra 2:64). A census was made by
     the Roman government in the time of our Lord (Luke 2:1). (See {TAXING}.)
     

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CENSUS. An enumeration of the inhabitants of a country. 
       2. For the purpose of keeping the representation of the several states 
  in congress equal, the constitution provides, that "representatives and 
  direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states, which may be 
  included in this Union, according to their respective numbers; which shall 
  be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those 
  bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three-
  fifths of all other persons. The actual enumeration shall be made within 
  three years after the first meeting of the congress of the United States, 
  and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such a manner as they 
  shall by law direct." Art. 1, s. 2; vide 1 Story, L. U. S., 73, 722, 751; 2 
  Id. 1134, 1139, 1169, 1194; 3 Id. 1776; 4 Sharsw. continuation, 2179.