critic
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British, America) IPA: /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
critic (plural critics)
- A person who appraises the works of others.
- 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Goldsmith,_Oliver Goldsmith, Oliver]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- A specialist in judging works of art.
- One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- An opponent.
- Obsolete form of critique#English|critique (an act of criticism)
- 1709, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: Printed for W. Lewis […], published 1711, OCLC 15810849 ↗:
- Make each day a Critick on the last.
- Obsolete form of critique#English|critique (the art of criticism)
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
- And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.
- 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
- German: Kritiker, Kritikerin
- Portuguese: crítico
- Russian: кри́тик
- German: Kritiker
- Portuguese: criticador
- Russian: кри́тик
- German: Kritiker, Kritikerin, Gegner, Gegnerin
critic (critics, present participle criticking; past and past participle criticked)
- (obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
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