Critic" : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Critic	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Critic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
critic n a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Critic \Crit"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical. [Obs.] [bd]Critic learning.[b8] --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Critic \Crit"ic\, v. i. [Cf. F. critiquer.] To criticise; to play the critic. [Obs.] Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done. --A. Brewer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Critic \Crit"ic\ (kr?t"?k), n. [L. criticus, Gr. [?][?][?][?], a critic; prop., an adj. meaning able to discuss, from [?][?][?][?] to judge, discern. See {Certain}, and cf. {Critique}.] 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 [than Goldsmith's [bd]Traveler[b8]] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the [bd]Dunciad.[b8] --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. [Obs.] --Locke. 4. An act of criticism; a critique. [Obs.] And make each day a critic on the last. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Critique \Cri*tique"\ (kr?-t?k"), n. [F. critique, f., fr. Gr. [?][?][?][?] (sc. [?][?][?][?]) the critical art, from [?][?][?][?][?]. See {Critic}.] 1. The art of criticism. [Written also {critic}.] [R.] 2. A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's [bd]Critique of Pure Reason.[b8] I should as soon expect to see a critique on the poesy of a ring as on the inscription of a medal. --Addison. 3. A critic; one who criticises. [Obs.] A question among critiques in the ages to come. --Bp. Lincoln.