celibacy, n. 1. (all in reference to sexual relations)
continence, abstinence, self-restraint, asceticism, selfabnegation, self-denial; chastity, virginity, virtue, purity. .
2. singleness, bachelorhood, spinsterhood, Euph. single blessedness; religious life, monasticism, priesthood, sisterhood, nunhood. celibate, adj. 1. single, unmarried, unwed, spouse-less, wifeless, husbandless.
2. (all in reference to sexual relations) abstinent, continent, abstemious, restrained, self-disciplined, ascetic, austere.
3. chaste, pure, immaculate, virtuous, undefiled, virginal, unsullied, untouched, Archaic, honest.
-n. 4. virgin, maid, maiden, spinster; bachelor, misogamist, misogynist.
5. priest, monk, brother, nun, sister. cell, n. room, chamber, compartment, apartment, cabin; cubicle, stall, booth, berth, cubbyhole, Brit. snuggery; nook, recess, closet, hole in the wall, hole, cavity; cloister, hermitage, asylum, retreat; cage, enclosure, lockup, place of confinement, Sl. coop. cellar, n. basement, vault, crypt, subbasement; downstairs, underground, Chiefly Brit, below stairs; storeroom, buttery, larder, cellerage. cement, v. 1. glue, paste, mortar, solder, braze, gum or stick together; bond, bind, join, fix, affix, unite, seal.
2. pave, concrete, asphalt, macadamize, plaster, stucco, parget; overlay, overspread, cover.
3. adhere, cohere, stick, hold, cling, cleave, take; congeal, harden, set. cemetery, n. graveyard, burial ground or place, necropolis, golgotha, Western U.S. boot hill; churchyard, potter's field, memorial park, God's acre; charnel house, ossuary, (of animals) boneyard. censor, n. 1. examiner, reader, inspector, reviewer; expurgator, bowdlerizer, abridger, amender; Mrs. Grundy.
2. faultfinder, critic, criticaster, Inf. knocker; carper, complainer, caviler; castigator, chastiser, censurer, reprimander, chider, scold, scolder; denouncer, objur-gator, berater; detractor, slanderer, backbiter, muck-raker, defamer, libeler; calumniator, vituperator, vili-fier, vilipender, reviler; abuser, traducer, disparager, depreciator, maligner; decrier, belittler, discreditor.
-v. 3. examine, read, review, inspect; expurgate, bowdlerize, refine, purge; cut, delete, abridge, amend, edit. censorious, adj. critical, faultfinding, captious, carping; complaining, animadversional, nagging, hair-splitting, querulous, caviling; caustic, biting, vitriolic, cutting, trenchant, severe; disparaging, berating, derogatory, disapproving, disapprobatory, hypercritical; objurgatory, denunciatory, fulminatory; condemnatory, comminatory, incriminatory, accusatory, damnatory; upbraiding, scolding, abusive; reproachful, censuring, reproving; vituperative, vilifying, invective, vilipending, blackening, opprobrious; calumniatory, scurrilous, defamatory, slanderous; maligning, aspersive, malicious, virulent. censurable, adj. reproachable, reprovable, rebukable, impeachable, condemnable, damnable; reprehensible, blameworthy, guilty, culpable, faulty, at fault, imputable; answerable, chargeable, blamable, accountable, amenable; wrongful, wrong, amiss; discreditable, disgraceful, objectionable; uncommendable, illaudable.