a celebrated writer in the third century, well known by his treatise *De die Natali*. This treatise, which was written about the year 238, Gerard Vossius calls a little book of gold; and declares it to be a most learned work of the highest use and importance to chronologers, since it connects and determines, with great exactness, some of the principal eras in pagan history. It was printed at Cambridge, with the notes of Lindembrikius, in 1695.

*CENSURE*, a judgment which condemns some book, person, or action, or more particularly, a reprimand from a superior. Ecclesiastical censures are penalties, by which, for some remarkable misbehaviour, Christians are deprived of the communion of the church, or prohibited to exercise the sacerdotal office.