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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 our ministry to each other.—I have often thought that we do not often enough wash one another's feet. We are conscious of the imperfections which mar the characters of those around us. We are content to note, criticise, and learn them. We dare not attempt to remove them. This failure arises partly because we do not love with a love like Christ's—a love which will brave resentment, annoyance, rebuke, in its quest,—and partly because we are not willing to ...

— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... even of meteorological processes, etc.) around which legendary and historical material can grow. As has been shown by two fairy tales and as I could have abundantly shown from countless others, the psychoanalytic and the anagogic interpretations are possible alongside of the scientific. [We can criticise Hitchcock for having in his explanations of fairy tales considered them only in their most developed form, and not bothered about their origin and archaic forms. And as a matter of fact the more developed forms permit ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... not to see pictures—that is generally impossible—but to see and be seen of men), but few had any suspicion that this strange man, with the shabby, old-fashioned apparel, and expression half nervous, half defiant, was the painter whose pictures they were pretending to criticise. ...

— A Comedy of Masks - A Novel • Ernest Dowson and Arthur Moore

... paragraphs, so as to exhibit under some general head the bearing of the whole. The selector, in this respect, can only say, he has done his best; and those who are most competent to appreciate difficulty, will be least inclined to criticise failure. ...

— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke

... day to see the use of this reconnoitring, but at Ladysmith everything was equally mysterious and perplexing. It was perhaps that my knowledge of military matters was too limited to understand the subtle manoeuvres of those days. But I have made up my mind not to criticise our leader's military strategy, though I must say at this juncture that the whole siege of Ladysmith and the manner in which the besieged garrison was ineffectually pounded at with our big guns for several months, seem to me an unfathomable mystery, which, owing to Joubert's untimely death, will ...

— My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War • Ben Viljoen

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