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censor (n.): 1530s, "Roman magistrate who took censuses and oversaw public morals," from Middle French censor and directly from Latin censor, from censere "to appraise, value, judge," from PIE root *kens- "speak solemnly, announce" (cognates: Sanskrit śamsati "recites, praises," śasa "song of praise").

There were two of them at a time in classical times, usually patricians, and they also had charge of public finances and public works. Transferred sense of "officious judge of morals and conduct" in English is from 1590s. Roman censor also had a transferred sense of "a severe judge; a rigid moralist; a censurer." Of books, plays (later films, etc.), 1640s. By the early decades of the 19c. the meaning of the English word had shaded into "state agent charged with suppression of speech or published matter deemed politically subversive." Related: Censorial.
censor (v.): 1833 of media, from censor (n.). Related: Censored; censoring.
censorious (adj.): "fond of criticizing," 1530s, from Latin censorius "pertaining to a censor," also "rigid, severe," from censor (see censor (n.)). Related: Censoriously; censoriousness.
censorship (n.): 1590s, "office of a censor," from censor (n.) + -ship. Meaning "action of censoring" is from 1824.
ensorcell (v.): also ensorcel, "to bewitch," 1540s, from French ensorceller, from Old French ensorceler, dissimilated from ensorcerer from en- (see en- (1)) + verb from sorcier "sorcerer, wizard" (see sorcery). Related: Ensorcelled; ensorceled.
extensor (n.): "muscle which serves to straighten or extend any part of the body," 1713, short for medical Latin musculus extensor, from Late Latin extensor "stretcher," agent noun from Latin extendere "spread out, spread" (see extend).
extrasensory (adj.): also extra-sensory, 1934, coined as part of extra-sensory perception in J.B. Rhine's work, from extra- + sensory. Extrasensible (1874) was used earlier in reference to "that which is inaccessible to the senses."
sensor (n.): 1947, from an adjective (1865), a shortened form of sensory (q.v.).
sensorimotor: "pertaining to sensation and to motion," 1855, from comb. form of sensory + motor (n.).
sensorium (n.): 1640s, "seat of the soul" in the brain, from Late Latin sensorium, from sens-, past participle stem of sentire "to feel" (see sense (n.)) + -orium (see -ory).
sensory (adj.): 1749, "pertaining to sense or sensation," from Latin sensorius, from sensus, past participle of sentire "to perceive, feel" (see sense (n.)).
somatosensory (adj.): 1952, from somato- "body" + sensory.
tensor (n.): muscle that stretches or tightens a part, 1704, Modern Latin agent noun from tens-, past participle stem of Latin tendere "to stretch" (see tenet).
uncensored (adj.): 1890, from un- (1) "not" + past participle of censor (v.).
incensory: "Another term for censer", Early 17th century (denoting a burnt offering, or an altar for it): from medieval Latin incensorium, from incensum (see incense¹).