critic

noun

1. 1

   A person who appraises the works of others.

   Following its publication, the novel received widespread acclaim from literary critics.

   The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.

2. 2

   A specialist in judging works of art.

3. 3

   One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

   When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

4. 4

   An opponent.

5. 5

   Variant of critiqueobsoleteObsolete form of critique (“an act of criticism”).

   Make each day a Critick on the last.

6. 6

   Variant of critiqueobsoleteObsolete form of critique (“the art of criticism”).

   And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

verb

1. 1

   obsoleteTo criticise.

   1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Forms

plural

critics

past tense

criticked

past participle

criticked

present participle

criticking

third person singular

critics