a person censured, or entered in the cenual tables. See CENSUS.

In an ancient monument found at Ancyra, containing the actions of the emperor Octavius, we read,

Quo lusivo civium Romanorum Centum sunt capitae quadragies Centum millia & sexaginta tria.

Censitus is also used in the civil law for a servile sort of tenant, who pays capitation to his lord for the land he holds of him, and is entered as such in the lord's rent-roll. In which sense, the word amounts to the same with capitae centiae, or capitae centefus. See CAPITAE CENFI.