Word Meanings - ARISTARCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A severe critic. Knowles.
Related words: (words related to ARISTARCH)
- CRITICISER
One who criticises; a critic. - CRITICALLY
1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification - CRITICASTER
A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne. - CRITIC
1. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was, - CRITICALNESS
1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness. - SEVERE
perhaps akin to Gr. swikns innocent, chaste: cf. F. sévère. Cf. 1. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful. Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. Waller. - CRITICISE
1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; - CRITICISABLE
Capable of being criticised. - CRITICAL
Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation. - CRITICISM
1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - ONIROCRITIC
See ONEIROCRITIC - ACRITICAL
Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess. - HYPERCRITICISM
Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism. - ECCRITIC
A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic. - NEOCRITICISM
The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. - ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
The art of interpreting dreams. - DIACRITIC; DIACRITICAL
That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, â, ä, o, ô, etc. "Diacritical points." Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography - HYPOCRITIC
See SWIFT - HYPERCRITICISE
To criticise with unjust severity; to criticise captiously. - ONEIROCRITIC; ONEIROCRITICAL
Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.