CREMATION — CRITIQUE NWAD CREMATION.1

CREMATION, n. [L., to burn.] A burning; particularly, the burning of the dead, according to the custom of many ancient nations. NWAD CREMATION.1

CREMOR, n. [L. See Cream.] Cream; any expressed juice of grain; yeast; scum; a substance resembling cream. NWAD CREMOR.1

CRENATE, CRENATED, a. [L., a notch. See Cranny.] Notched; indented; scolloped. In botany, a crenate leaf has its edge, as it were, cut with angular or circular incisures, not inclining towards either extremity. When the scallops are segments of small circles, it is said to be obtusely crenated; when the larger segments have smaller ones upon them, a leaf is said to be doubly crenate. NWAD CRENATE.1

CRENATURE, n. A scollop, like a notch, in a leaf, or in the style of a plant. NWAD CRENATURE.1

CRENKLE, CRENGLE, CRENULATE, a. [See Cringle.] Having the edge, as it were, cut into very small scollops. NWAD CRENKLE.1

CREOLE, n. In the West Indies and Spanish America, a native of those countries descended from European ancestors. NWAD CREOLE.1

CREPANCE, CREPANE, n. [L., to burst.] A chop or cratch in a horses leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot crossing and striking the other hind foot. It sometimes degenerates into an ulcer. NWAD CREPANCE.1

CREPITATE, v.i. [L., to crackle, to crack, to burst with a sharp sound.] To crackle; to snap; to burst with a small sharp abrupt sound, rapidly repeated; as salt in fire, or during calcination. It differs from detonate, which signifies, to burst with a single loud report. NWAD CREPITATE.1

CREPITATING, ppr. Crackling; snapping. NWAD CREPITATING.1

CREPITATION, n. NWAD CREPITATION.1

1. The act of bursting with a frequent repetition of sharp sounds; the noise of some salts in calcination; crackling. NWAD CREPITATION.2

2. The noise of fractured bones, when moved by a surgeon to ascertain a fracture. NWAD CREPITATION.3

CREPT, pret. and pp. of creep. NWAD CREPT.1

CREPUSCLE, CREPUSCULE, n. [L., a little burst or break of light, or broken light.] Twilight; the light of the morning from the first dawn to sunrise, and of the evening from sunset to darkness. It is occasioned by the refraction of the suns ray. NWAD CREPUSCLE.1

CREPUSCULAR, CREPUSCULOUS, a. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; noting the imperfect light of the morning and evening; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. NWAD CREPUSCULAR.1

CREPUSCULINE, a. Crepuscular. [Not used.] NWAD CREPUSCULINE.1

CRESCENT, a. [L., to grow. See Grow.] Increasing; growing; as crescent horns. NWAD CRESCENT.1

CRESCENT, n. NWAD CRESCENT.2

1. The increasing or new moon, which, when receding from the sun, shows a curving rim of light, terminating in points or horns. It is applied to the old or decreasing moon, in a like state, but less properly. NWAD CRESCENT.3

2. The figure or likeness of the new moon; as that borne in the Turkish flag or national standard. The standard itself, and figuratively, the Turkish power. NWAD CRESCENT.4

3. In heraldry, a bearing in the form of a half moon. NWAD CRESCENT.5

4. The name of a military order, instituted by Renatus of Anjou, king of Sicily; so called from its symbol or badge, a crescent of gold enameled. NWAD CRESCENT.6

CRESCENT, v.t. To form into a crescent. NWAD CRESCENT.7

CRESCENT-SHAPED, a. In botany, lunate; lunated; shaped like a crescent; as a leaf. NWAD CRESCENT-SHAPED.1

CRESCIVE, a. [L., to grow.] Increasing; growing. NWAD CRESCIVE.1

CRESS, n. [G., L.] The name of several species of plants, most of them of the class tetradynamia. Watercresses, of the genus Sisymbrium, are used as a salad, and are valued in medicine for their antiscorbutic qualities. The leaves have a moderately pungent taste. They grow on the brinks of rivulets and in other moist grounds. The word is generally used in the plural. NWAD CRESS.1

CRESSET, n. [See Cross.] NWAD CRESSET.1

1. A great light set on a beacon, lighthouse, or watch tower. NWAD CRESSET.2

2. A lamp or torch. NWAD CRESSET.3

CREST, n. [L. This is probably, a growing or shooting up, from the root of cresco.] NWAD CREST.1

1. The plume of feathers or other material on the top of the ancient helmet; the helmet itself. NWAD CREST.2

2. The ornament of the helmet in heraldry. NWAD CREST.3

3. The comb of a cock; also, a tuft of feathers on the head of other fowls. NWAD CREST.4

4. Any tuft or ornament worn on the head. NWAD CREST.5

5. Loftiness; pride; courage; spirit; a lofty mien. NWAD CREST.6

CREST, v.t. NWAD CREST.7

1. To furnish with a crest; to serve as a crest for. NWAD CREST.8

2. To mark with long streaks. NWAD CREST.9

CRESTED, a. [from crest.] NWAD CRESTED.1

1. Wearing a crest; adorned with a crest or plume; having a comb; as a crested helmet; a crested cock. NWAD CRESTED.2

2. In natural history, having a tuft like a crest. NWAD CRESTED.3

CREST-FALLEN, a. NWAD CREST-FALLEN.1

1. Dejected; sunk; bowed; dispirited; heartless; spiritless. NWAD CREST-FALLEN.2

2. Having the upper part of the neck hanging on one side, as a horse. NWAD CREST-FALLEN.3

CRESTLESS, a. Without a crest; not dignified with coat-armor; not of an eminent family; of low birth. NWAD CRESTLESS.1

CRETACEOUS, a. [L., chalk.] Chalky; having the qualities of chalk; like chalk; abounding with chalk. NWAD CRETACEOUS.1

CRETIC, n. [Gr.] A poetic foot of three syllables, one short between two long syllables. NWAD CRETIC.1

CRETIN, n. A name given to certain deformed and helpless idiots in the Alps. NWAD CRETIN.1

CREVICE, n. [L., to burst. See Crepitate and Rip.] A crack; a cleft; a fissure; a rent; an opening; as a crevice in a wall. NWAD CREVICE.1

CREVICE, v.t. To crack; to flaw. NWAD CREVICE.2

CREVIS, n. The craw-fish. NWAD CREVIS.1

CREW, n. NWAD CREW.1

1. A company of people associated; as a noble crew; a gallant crew. NWAD CREW.2

2. A company, in a low or bad sense, which is now most usual; a herd; as a rebel crew. NWAD CREW.3

So we say, a miserable crew. NWAD CREW.4

3. The company of seamen who man a ship, vessel or boat; the company belonging to a vessel. Also, the company or gang of a carpenter, gunner, boatswain, etc. It is appropriated to the common sailors. NWAD CREW.5

CREW, pret. of crow, but the regular preterit and participle, crowed, is now most commonly used. NWAD CREW.6

CREWEL, n. Yarn twisted and wound on a knot or ball, or two threaded worsted. NWAD CREWEL.1

CREWET. [See Cruet.] NWAD CREWET.1

CRIB, n. NWAD CRIB.1

1. The manger of a stable, in which oxen and cows feed. In America, it is distinguished from a rack for horses. NWAD CRIB.2

Where no oxen are, the crib is clean. Proverbs 14:4. NWAD CRIB.3

The manger for other beasts. NWAD CRIB.4

The ass knoweth his master’s crib. Isaiah 1:3. NWAD CRIB.5

2. A small habitation or cottage. NWAD CRIB.6

3. A stall for oxen. NWAD CRIB.7

4. A case or box in salt works. NWAD CRIB.8

5. A small building, raised on posts, for storing Indian corn. NWAD CRIB.9

CRIB, v.t. To shut or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage. NWAD CRIB.10

CRIBBAGE, n. A game at cards. NWAD CRIBBAGE.1

CRIBBED, pp. Shut up; confined; caged. NWAD CRIBBED.1

CRIBBLE, n. NWAD CRIBBLE.1

1. A corn-sieve or riddle. NWAD CRIBBLE.2

2. Coarse flour or meal. [Not used in the United States.] NWAD CRIBBLE.3

CRIBBLE, v.t. To sift; to cause to pass through a sieve or riddle. NWAD CRIBBLE.4

CRIBRATION, n. [See Cribble.] The act of sifting or riddling; used in pharmacy. NWAD CRIBRATION.1

CRIBRIFORM, a. [L., a sieve, and form.] Resembling a sieve or riddle; a term applied to the lamen of the ethmoid bone, through which the fibers of the olfactory nerve pass to the nose. NWAD CRIBRIFORM.1

CRICHTONITE, n. A mineral so called from Dr. Crichton, physician to the Emperor of Russia. It has a velvet black color, and crystalizes in very acute small rhomboids. It occurs in primitive rocks with octahedrite. NWAD CRICHTONITE.1

CRICK, n. [See Creak.] NWAD CRICK.1

1. The creaking of a door. [Not used.] NWAD CRICK.2

2. A spasmodic affection of some part of the body, as of the neck or back; local spasm or cramp. NWAD CRICK.3

CRICKET, n. An insect of the genus Gryllus, belonging to the order of Hemipters. There are several species, so named probably on account of their creaking or chirping voice. NWAD CRICKET.1

The cricket chirping in the hearth. NWAD CRICKET.2

CRICKET, n. NWAD CRICKET.3

1. A play or exercise with bats and ball. NWAD CRICKET.4

2. A low stool. NWAD CRICKET.5

CRICKETER, n. One who plays at cricket. NWAD CRICKETER.1

CRICKET-MATCH, n. A match at cricket. NWAD CRICKET-MATCH.1

CRIED, pret. and part. of cry. NWAD CRIED.1

CRIER, CRYER, n. [See Cry.] One who cries; one who makes proclamation. The crier of a court is an officer whose duty is to proclaim the orders or commands of the court, to open or adjourn the court, keep silence, etc. A crier is also employed to give notice of auctions, and for other purposes. NWAD CRIER.1

CRIME, n. [L., Gr., to separate, to judge, to decree, to condemn.] NWAD CRIME.1

1. An act which violates a law, divine or human; an act which violates a rule of moral duty; an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man, or against any rule of duty plainly implied in those laws. A crime may consist in omission or neglect, as well as in commission, or positive transgression. The commander of a fortress who suffers the enemy to take possession by neglect, is as really criminal, as one who voluntarily opens the gates without resistance. NWAD CRIME.2

But in a more common and restricted sense, a crime denotes an offense, or violation of public law, of a deeper and more atrocious nature; a public wrong; or a violation of the commands of God, and the offenses against the laws made to preserve the public rights; as treason, murder, robbery, theft, arson, etc. The minor wrongs committed against individuals or private rights, are denominated trespasses, and the minor wrongs against public rights are called misdemeanors. Crimes and misdemeanors are punishable by indictment, information or public prosecution; trespasses or private injuries, at the suit of the individuals injured. But in many cases an act is considered both as a public offense and a trespass, and is punishable both by the public and the individual injured. NWAD CRIME.3

2. Any great wickedness; iniquity; wrong. NWAD CRIME.4

No crime was thing, if tis no crime to love. NWAD CRIME.5

Capital crime, a crime punishable with death. NWAD CRIME.6

CRIMEFUL, a. Criminal; wicked; partaking of wrong; contrary to law, right to duty. NWAD CRIMEFUL.1

CRIMELESS, a. Free from crime; innocent. NWAD CRIMELESS.1

CRIMINAL, a. NWAD CRIMINAL.1

1. Guilty of a crime; applied to persons. NWAD CRIMINAL.2

2. Partaking of a crime; involving a crime; that violates public law, divine or human; as, theft is a criminal act. NWAD CRIMINAL.3

3. That violates moral obligation; wicked. NWAD CRIMINAL.4

4. Relating to crimes; opposed to civil; as a criminal code; criminal law. NWAD CRIMINAL.5

CRIMINAL, n. A person who has committed an offense against public law; a violator of law, divine or human. More particularly, a person indicted or charged with a public offense, and one who is found guilty, by verdict, confession or proof. NWAD CRIMINAL.6

Criminal conversation, the illegal commerce of the sexes; adultery. NWAD CRIMINAL.7

CRIMINALITY, CRIMINALNESS, n. The quality of being criminal, or a violation of law; guiltiness; the quality of being guilty of a crime. NWAD CRIMINALITY.1

This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. NWAD CRIMINALITY.2

CRIMINALLY, adv. In violation of public law; in violation of divine law; wickedly; in a wrong or iniquitous manner. NWAD CRIMINALLY.1

CRIMINATE, v.t. [L.] To accuse; to charge with a crime; to alledge to be guilty of a crime, offense or wrong. NWAD CRIMINATE.1

Our municipal laws do not require the offender to plead guilty or criminate himself. NWAD CRIMINATE.2

CRIMINATED, pp. Accused; charge with a crime. NWAD CRIMINATED.1

CRIMINATING, ppr. Accusing; alledging to be guilty. NWAD CRIMINATING.1

CRIMINATION, n. [L.] The act of accusing; accusation; charge of having been guilty of a criminal act, offense or wrong. NWAD CRIMINATION.1

CRIMINATORY, a. Relating to accusation; accusing. NWAD CRIMINATORY.1

CRIMINOUS, a. Very wicked; hainous; involving great crime. [Not used.] NWAD CRIMINOUS.1

CRIMINOUSLY, adv. Criminally; hainously; enormously. [Not used.] NWAD CRIMINOUSLY.1

CRIMINOUSNESS, n. Wickedness; guilt; criminality. [Not used.] NWAD CRIMINOUSNESS.1

CRIMOSIN. [See Crimson.] NWAD CRIMOSIN.1

CRIMP, a. [See Crumble.] NWAD CRIMP.1

1. Easily crumbled; friable; brittle. [Little used.] NWAD CRIMP.2

The fowler--treads the crimp earth. NWAD CRIMP.3

2. Not consistent. [Not used.] NWAD CRIMP.4

CRIMP, v.t. To catch; to seize; to pinch and hold. [See Crimple.] NWAD CRIMP.5

CRIMP, v.t. To curl or frizzle; as, to crimp the hair. This is evidently the same word as the foregoing. NWAD CRIMP.6

CRIMP, n. NWAD CRIMP.7

1. In England, an agent for coal-merchants, and for persons concerned in shipping. NWAD CRIMP.8

2. One who decoys another into the naval or military service. NWAD CRIMP.9

3. A game at cards. NWAD CRIMP.10

CRIMPLE, v.t. [G. See Crumple and Rumple.] To contract or draw together; to shrink; to cause to shrink; to curl. NWAD CRIMPLE.1

CRIMPLED, pp. Contracted; shrunk; curled. NWAD CRIMPLED.1

CRIMPLING, ppr. Contracting; shrinking; curling; hobbling. NWAD CRIMPLING.1

CRIMSON, n. [G.] A deep red color; a red tinged with blue; also, a red color in general; as the virgin crimson of modesty. NWAD CRIMSON.1

He made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson. 2 Chronicles 3:14. NWAD CRIMSON.2

CRIMSON, a. Of a beautiful deep red; as the crimson blush of modesty; a crimson stream of blood. NWAD CRIMSON.3

CRIMSON, v.t. To dye with crimson; to dye of a deep red color; to make red. NWAD CRIMSON.4

CRIMSON, v.i. To become of a deep red color; to be tinged with red; to blush. NWAD CRIMSON.5

Her cheeks crimsoned at the entrance of her lover. NWAD CRIMSON.6

CRIMSONED, pp. Dyed or tinged with a deep red. NWAD CRIMSONED.1

CRIMSONING, ppr. Dyeing or tinging with a deep red. NWAD CRIMSONING.1

CRINCUM, n. A cramp; a contraction; a turn or bend; a whim. [A vulgar word.] NWAD CRINCUM.1

CRINGE, v.t. [G.] Properly, to shrink; to contract; to draw together; a popular use of the word. [Vulgarly, scringe.] NWAD CRINGE.1

You see him cringe his face. NWAD CRINGE.2

CRINGE, v.i. To bow; to bend with servility; to fawn; to make court by mean compliances. NWAD CRINGE.3

Flatterers are always bowing and cringing. NWAD CRINGE.4

CRINGE, n. A bow; servile civility. NWAD CRINGE.5

CRINGER, n. One who cringes, or bows and flatters with servility. NWAD CRINGER.1

CRINGING, ppr. Shrinking; bowing servilely. NWAD CRINGING.1

CRINGLE, n. [See Crank and Cringe.] NWAD CRINGLE.1

1. A withe for fastening a gate. [Local.] NWAD CRINGLE.2

2. In marine language, a hole in the boltrope of a sail, formed by intertwisting the division of a rope, called a strand, alternately round itself, and through the strand of the colt-rope, till it becomes three-fold, and takes the shape of a ring. Its use is to receive the ends of the ropes by which the sail is drawn up to its yard, or to extend the leech by the bow-line-bridles. NWAD CRINGLE.3

Iron-cringles or hanks, are open rings running on the stays, to which the heads of the stay sails are made fast. NWAD CRINGLE.4

CRINIGEROUS, a. [L., hear, to wear.] Hairy; overgrown with hair. NWAD CRINIGEROUS.1

CRINITE, a. [L., hair.] Having the appearance of a tuft of hair. NWAD CRINITE.1

CRINKLE, v.i. To turn or wind; to bend; to wrinkle; to run in and out in little or short bends or turns; as, the lightning crinkles. NWAD CRINKLE.1

CRINKLE, v.t. To form with short turns or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities. NWAD CRINKLE.2

CRINKLE, n. A wrinkle; a winding or turn; sinuosity. NWAD CRINKLE.3

CRINOSE, a. Hairy. [See Crinite.] [Little used.] NWAD CRINOSE.1

CRINOSITY, n. Hairiness. [Little used.] NWAD CRINOSITY.1

CRIPPLE, n. [G.] A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. Acts 14:8. NWAD CRIPPLE.1

The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs. NWAD CRIPPLE.2

See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing. NWAD CRIPPLE.3

CRIPPLE, a. Lame. NWAD CRIPPLE.4

CRIPPLE, v.t. NWAD CRIPPLE.5

1. To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet. NWAD CRIPPLE.6

2. To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement. NWAD CRIPPLE.7

CRIPPLED, pp. Lamed; rendered impotent in the limbs; disabled. NWAD CRIPPLED.1

CRIPPLENESS, n. Lameness. NWAD CRIPPLENESS.1

CRIPPLING, ppr. Laming; depriving of the use of the limbs; disabling. NWAD CRIPPLING.1

CRISIS, n. plu. [Gr. L., to separate, to determine, to decide. See Crime.] NWAD CRISIS.1

1. In medical science, the change of a disease which indicates its event; that change which indicates recovery or death. It is sometimes used to designate the excretion of something noxious from the body, or of the noxious fluids in a fever. NWAD CRISIS.2

2. The decisive state of things, or the point of time when an affair is arrive to its highth, and must soon terminate or suffer a material change. NWAD CRISIS.3

This hours the very crisis of your fate. NWAD CRISIS.4

CRISP, a. [L. G. See the Verb.] NWAD CRISP.1

1. Curled; formed into curls or ringlets. NWAD CRISP.2

2. Indented; winding; as crisp channels. NWAD CRISP.3

3. Brittle; friable; easily broken or crumbled. NWAD CRISP.4

CRISP, v.t. [L.] NWAD CRISP.5

1. To curl; to twist; to contract or form into ringlets, as the hair; to wreathe or interweave, as the branches of trees. NWAD CRISP.6

2. To indent. To twist or eddy. But the sense is, to curl; to wrinkle in little undulations, as a fretted surface. NWAD CRISP.7

From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, ran nectar, visiting each plant. NWAD CRISP.8

CRISPATION, n. The act of curling, or state of being curled. NWAD CRISPATION.1

CRISPATURE, n. A curling; the state of being curled. NWAD CRISPATURE.1

CRISPED, pp. Curled; twisted; frizzled. NWAD CRISPED.1

CRISPING, ppr. Curling; frizzling. NWAD CRISPING.1

CRISPING-PIN, n. A curling iron. NWAD CRISPING-PIN.1

CRISPNESS, n. A state of being curled; also, brittleness. NWAD CRISPNESS.1

CRISPY, a. NWAD CRISPY.1

1. Curled; formed into ringlets; as crispy locks. NWAD CRISPY.2

2. Brittle; dried so as to break short; as a crispy cake. NWAD CRISPY.3

CRISTATE, CRISTATED, a. [L., a crest.] In botany, crested; tufted; having an appendage like a crest or tuft, as some anthers and flowers. NWAD CRISTATE.1

CRITERION, n. plu. [Gr., to judge. See Crime.] A standard of judging; any established law, rule, principle or fact, by which facts, propositions and opinions are compared, in order to discover their truth or falsehood, or by which a correct judgment may be formed. NWAD CRITERION.1

CRITHOMANCY, n. [Gr., barley, and divination.] A kind of divination by means of the dough of cakes, and the meal strewed over the victims, in ancient sacrifices. NWAD CRITHOMANCY.1

CRITIC, n. [Gr., a judge or discerner, to judge, to separate, to distinguish. See Crime.] NWAD CRITIC.1

1. A person skilled in judging of the merit of literary works; one who is able to discern and distinguish the beauties and faults of writing. In a more general sense, a person skilled in judging with propriety of any combination of objects, or of any work of art; and particularly of what are denominated the Fine Arts. A critic is one who, from experience, knowledge, habit or taste, can perceive the difference between propriety and impropriety, in objects or works presented to his view; between the natural and unnatural; the high and the low, or lofty and mean; the congruous and incongruous; the correct and incorrect, according to the established rules of the art. NWAD CRITIC.2

2. An examiner; a judge. NWAD CRITIC.3

And make each day a critic on the last. NWAD CRITIC.4

3. One who judges with severity; one who censures or finds fault. NWAD CRITIC.5

CRITIC, a. Critical; relating to criticism, or the art of judging of the merit of a literary performance or discourse, or of any work in the fine arts. [See Critical.] NWAD CRITIC.6

CRITIC, v.i. To criticise; to play the critic. [Little used.] NWAD CRITIC.7

CRITICAL, a. [L. Gr. See Critic.] NWAD CRITICAL.1

1. Relating to criticism; nicely exact; as a critical dissertation on Homer. NWAD CRITICAL.2

2. Having the skill or power nicely to distinguish beauties from blemishes; a a critical judge; a critical auditor; a critical ear; critical taste. NWAD CRITICAL.3

3. Making nice distinctions; accurate; as critical rules. NWAD CRITICAL.4

4. Capable of judging with accuracy; discerning beauties and faults; nicely judicious in matters of literature and the fine arts; as, Virgil was a critical poet. NWAD CRITICAL.5

5. Capable of judging with accuracy; conforming to exact rules of propriety; exact; particular; as, to be critical in rites and ceremonies, or in the selection of books. NWAD CRITICAL.6

6. Inclined to find fault, or to judge with severity. NWAD CRITICAL.7

7. [See Crisis.] Pertaining to a crisis; marking the time or state of a disease which indicates its termination in the death or recovery of the patient; as critical days, or critical symptoms. NWAD CRITICAL.8

8. Producing a crisis or change in a disease; indicating a crisis; as a critical sweat. NWAD CRITICAL.9

9. Decisive; noting a time or state on which the issue of things depends; important, as regards the consequences; as a critical time or moment; a critical juncture. NWAD CRITICAL.10

10. Formed or situated to determine or decide, or having the crisis at command; important or essential for determining; as a critical post. NWAD CRITICAL.11

CRITICALLY, adv. NWAD CRITICALLY.1

1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment of truth or falsehood, propriety or impropriety; with nice scrutiny; accurately; exactly; as, to examine evidence critically; to observe critically. NWAD CRITICALLY.2

2. At the crisis; at the exact time. NWAD CRITICALLY.3

3. In a critical situation, place or condition, so as to command the crisis; as a town critically situated. NWAD CRITICALLY.4

CRITICALNESS, n. NWAD CRITICALNESS.1

1. The state of being critical; incidence at a particular point of time. NWAD CRITICALNESS.2

2. Exactness; accuracy; nicety; minute care in examination. NWAD CRITICALNESS.3

CRITICISE, v.i. s as z. NWAD CRITICISE.1

1. To examine and judge critically; to judge with attention to beauties and faults; as, to criticise on a literary work, on an argument or discourse. NWAD CRITICISE.2

2. To write remarks on the merit of a performance; to notice beauties and faults. NWAD CRITICISE.3

Cavil you may, but never criticise. NWAD CRITICISE.4

3. To animadvert upon as faulty; to utter censure; as, to critise on a man’s manners, or his expenses. NWAD CRITICISE.5

CRITICISE, v.t. NWAD CRITICISE.6

1. To notice beauties and blemishes or faults in; to utter or write remarks on the merit of a performance; as, to criticise the writings of Milton. NWAD CRITICISE.7

2. To pass judgment on with respect to merit or blame; as, to criticise an author; to criticise the conduct. NWAD CRITICISE.8

CRITICISED, pp. Examined and judged with respect to beauties and faults. NWAD CRITICISED.1

CRITICISING, ppr. Examining and judging with regard to beauties and faults; remarking on; animadverting on. NWAD CRITICISING.1

CRITICISM, n. NWAD CRITICISM.1

1. The art of judging with propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of any production in the fine arts; as the rules of criticism. NWAD CRITICISM.2

2. The act of judging on the merit of a performance; animadversion; remark on beauties and faults; critical observation, verbal or written. We say, the authors criticisms are candid, or they are severe. NWAD CRITICISM.3

CRITIQUE, CRITIC, n. NWAD CRITIQUE.1

1. A critical examination of the merits of a performance; remarks or animadversions on beauties and faults. NWAD CRITIQUE.2

Addison wrote a critique on PARADISE LOST. NWAD CRITIQUE.3

2. Science of criticism; standard or rules of judging of the merit of performances. NWAD CRITIQUE.4

If ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic. NWAD CRITIQUE.5