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Criticise v. t. (past & past part. criticised; pres. part. criticising)

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.

Synonyms: criticize, pick apart.

Criticise v. i.

To act as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment; to play the critic; formerly used with on or upon. "Several of these ladies, indeed, criticised upon the form of the association."

To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault. "Cavil you may, but never criticise."

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Etymology of 'Criticise'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Criticise" Quotes from Famous Books

... to criticise any member of her husband's family; their faults are out of her reach except by the force of tactful example. Her concern is with herself and him, not his family, and a wise girl, at the beginning of her married life, will draw ...

— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed

... own. The tone of it is infinitely more manly: one seems to hear a deep, decisive voice replying to tones far less sweet and serious. M. De Banville revenged himself nobly in later verses addressed to Gautier, verses which criticise the genius of that workman better, we think, than anything else that has been written of him in prose ...

— Essays in Little • Andrew Lang

... a great difference to the people here if you interest yourself in them," he rejoined. "I tried to explain to Mr. Tredegar that I had no wish to criticise the business management of the mills—even if there had been any excuse for my doing so—but that I was sure the condition of the operatives could be very much improved, without permanent harm to the business, by any one who felt a personal sympathy for them; and in the end ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... a little prepared by her discursive reading and discussion under the Widgett influence for ideas and "movements," though temperamentally perhaps she was rather disposed to resist and criticise than embrace them. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, ...

— Ann Veronica • H. G. Wells

... with no personal malignity. Save for the action of the literary defence, if I may so term it, my article would have been as ephemeral as the mood which induced its composition. I make full admission of Rossetti's claims to the purest kind of literary renown, and if I were to criticise his poems now, I should write very differently. But nothing will shake my conviction that the cruelty, the unfairness, the pusillanimity has been on the other side, not on mine. The amende of my Dedication in God and the Man was ...

— Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti - 1883 • T. Hall Caine

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