Word Meanings - CRITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

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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, that nothing finer had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the "Dunciad." Macaulay. 2. One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper. When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield. 3. The art of criticism. Locke. 4. An act of criticism; a critique. And make each day a critic on the last. Pope.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CRITIC)

• Judge
• Justice
• magistrate
• arbitrator
• umpire
• referee
• critic
• connoisseur
• authority
• arbiter

Related words: (words related to CRITIC)

• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• CONNOISSEUR
  One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt. (more
• 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
• UMPIRESHIP
  Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel.
• 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,
• JUDGER
  One who judges. Sir K. Digby.
• JUSTICESHIP
  The office or dignity of a justice. Holland.
• ARBITRATOR
  1. A person, or one of two or more persons, chosen by parties who have a controversy, to determine their differences. See Arbitration. 2. One who has the power of deciding or prescribing without control; a ruler; a governor. Though Heaven be shut,
• REFEREE
  One to whom a thing is referred; a person to whom a matter in dispute has been referred, in order that he may settle it. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; umpire. See Judge.
• AUTHORITY
  1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• UMPIRE
  A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. (more info) uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence
• JUDGE
  A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose. The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length,
• JUDGESHIP
  The office of a judge.
• JUSTICEHOOD
  Justiceship. B. Jonson.
• JUSTICEMENT
  Administration of justice; procedure in courts of justice. Johnson.
• 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.
• JUDGE-MADE
  Created by judges or judicial decision; -- applied esp. to law applied or established by the judicial interpretation of statutes so as extend or restrict their scope, as to meet new cases, to provide new or better remedies, etc., and often used
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• INJUSTICE
  1. Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition. If this people resembled Nero in their extravagance, much more did they resemble and even exceed him in cruelty and injustice.
• PREJUDGE
  To judge before hearing, or before full and sufficient examination; to decide or sentence by anticipation; to condemn beforehand. The committee of council hath prejudged the whole case, by calling the united sense of both houses of Parliament" a
• FOREJUDGER
  A judgment by which one is deprived or put of a right or thing in question.
• 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.
• ABJUDGE
  To take away by judicial decision.
• REJUDGE
  To judge again; to re Rejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.
• ILL-JUDGED
  Not well judged; unwise.
• 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.