a person censed or entered in the tables of the census. In an ancient monument found at Ancyra, containing the actions of the Emperor Octavius, we read,

``` Quo Iustro civium Romamorum Censita sunt capita quadrages Centum milia et sexaginta tria: ```

From which we learn that the number of Roman citizens, entered in the censor's rolls, was then upwards of four millions.

Censitus is also used in the civil law for a servile sort of tenant, who pays capitatio to his lord for the lands he holds of him, and is entered as such in the lord's rent-roll; in which sense the word is equivalent to *capite censu*, or *capite censitis*. See *Capite Censi*.