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Show CR OR CR T . u n t r [ > Cr1sP1sv'LEANT. adj. [crifpifulcans, La 2. Relating to criticifm: as, be avrote critical differtation on the laft play 3. Captious ; inclined to find fault t o i p d t m l k m t " lam ufe of limbs Knots upon his gouty joints appear Dryd clean.sh data import.tsv out README And chalk is in his crippled fingers found Tettyx dancing-mafter th himfel thre tin.] Waved, or undulating, as lightDia ning is reprefented Cr1'spNEss. 7 /. [from crifp.] Curlednefs Cri'spy. adj. [from crifp.] Curled So are thofe ¢rifpy fhaky locks, oft know To be the dowry of a fecond head Shakefpeare's Merchant of Venice f d A l fa t i e p i c w b c r th o f [ fro n / CrrppreEness cripple. Dia Lamenefs; privation of the limbs Cri1'sls. 725 [xeimg.. 1. The point in which the difeafe kills CRITE'RION. 7. /. [2girgion.] A mark b which any thing 1s judged of, with regard to its goodnefs or badnefs Mutual agreement and endearments was th badge of primitive believers ; but we may b ~or changes to the better; the decifiv - moment when fentence is pafled known by the contrary criterion. Glanwille's Scepfis We have here a fure infallible criterion, by whic every man may difcover and find out the graciou or ungracious difpofition of his own heart. Sonrh Wife leeches will not vain receipts obtrude Deaf to complaints, they wait upon the ill Till fome fafe crifis authorize their fkill. Dryden any affai 2. The point of time at whic " comes to the height % This hour s the very crifis of your fate ' Your good or ill, your infamy or fame And all the colour of your life, depend The undertaking, which I am now laying down was entered upon in the very crifis of the late re ,m: contribut hi utmof affiftance t th govern Addifer's Freebolder QRISP. adj. [¢ri/pus, Latin. 1. Curled Now leatn what morals criticks ought to fhow For 'tis but half a judge's tafk to know 2. ‘An examiner Bulls are more crifp on the forchead than cows Bacon Th black Ethiopia flat nofed haired Yo nymphs and crif Hale 2. Indented; winding [zgrrmog. This fettles truer ideas in men's minds of fevera things, whereof we read the names in ancien authors, than all the lirge and laborious arguments of criticks Locke ment, in a manner. fuitable to his ftation an abilities n./ 1. A man fkilled in the art of judging o literature; a man able to diftinguit the faults and beauties of writing "bellion, when it was the duty of every Briton t ;{ If this is priz'd for fweetnefs, that for ftink Pope's Horace CRI,TICK Dryden's Spanib Friar On this important now By what criterion do you eat, d'ye think 3+ A fnarler; a carper; a caviller Criticks 1 faw, that others names deface And fix their own with labour in their place. Pope Where an author has many beauties confiften brooks With your fedg'd crowns, and ever harmlefs looks 3. Brittle; friable a judge But you with pleafure own your errours paft And make each day a critick on the laft Pope call'd Naiads, of the windin Leave your crifp channels, and on this green lan Anfwer your fummons ; Juno does command Sbhakefpeare Pope 4 with virtue, ‘piety and truth, let not little critick exalt themfelves nature an fhowe dow their illWatts A cenfurer ; a man apt to find fault My chief defign, next to feeing you, is to be fevere critick on you and your neighbour Swvift In frofty weather, mufick within doors foundeth Cri‘Tick adj Critical ; relating t _better; which may be by reafon, not of the difpocriticif relatin t th ar o judgin " fition of the air, but of the wood or ftring of th of literary performances inftrument, which is made more ¢rifp, and fo mor Thence arts o'er all the northern world advance Bacon's Nararal Hiftory. porous and hollow But critick learning flourifh'd moft in France. Pope T Cr1sP. v. a. [crifpo, Latin. (Chy Getteed o 1. To curl ; to contraét into knots or curls. 1. A critical examination ; - critica Severn, affrighted with their bloody looks marks; animadverfions Ran fearfully among the trembling reeds And hid his crifp'd head in the hollow bank Shakefpeare's Henry IV Young I'd have him too Yet a man, with crifped hair Caft in thoufand fnares and rings ¥or love's fingers, and his rings. Ben Fonfon Spirit of wine is not only unfit for inflammations in general, but alf ¢rifp u th veflel o the dura mater and brain, and fometimes produce Sharp's Surgery & gangrene 2: Lo twift Along the crifped fhades and bow'r Revels the fpruce and jocund fpring 3. Toindent Milton to run in and out From that faphine fount the crifped brooks Rolting on orient pearl and fands of gold Ran neétar, vifiting each plant Milton Crispa'Tron. 7 /. [from crifp. 1. The act of curling 2. The ftate of being curled Some differ in th hair an feathers bot i the quantity, crifpation, and colours of themj a he lions are hirfute, and have great manes; th fhe's are fmooth, like cats CrispinG-rin curling iron 7 / Bacon [fro crifp The changeable fuits of apparel, and the man tles, and the wimples, and the crifping-pins Ijaiaby iils 22 oL, T re I thould be glad if I could perfuade him to continue his good offices, and write fuch anothe critick on any thing of mine Dryder I fhould as foon expe& to fee a critigue on th poefy ofa xing, as on the infcription of a medal 2. Science of critici{m Addifon on Medals -0, gentle lady, do not put me to't For I am nothing, if not critical. Shakefp. Othells 4. [from crifis.] Comprifing the time a which a great event is determined The moon is fuppofed to be meafured by fevens and the critical or decretory days to be dependen Brown's Vulgar Errouri on that number 5. Decifive ; nice Opportunity is in refpeét to time, in fome fenfe as time is in refpeék to eternity: it is the {mal the exa& point moment duly confidered, they would afford us another for of logick and critick than what we have bee Locke hitherto acquainted with What is every year of a wife man's life, but Pope cenfure and critigue on the paft Not that my quill to ¢riticks was confin'd Pope My verfe gave ampler leflons to mankind To Cri'TiCK. w. n. [from. critick. play the critick; to criticize T They do but trace over the paths that have bee beaten by the ancients; or comment, critick, an Temple flourifh upon them Crr'ticaL. adj. [from critick. 1. Exatt; nicely judicious; accurate; diligent 1t is fubmitted to the judgment of more critica ears, to dire& and determine what is graceful an Holder what is not Virgil was focritical in the rites of religion, tha in fuc prayers a thefe, ¥ they had not been agreeable to the Roma Stilling flect cuftoms the critica minute, o which every good work fo much depends Spratt's Sermons The people cannot but refent to fee their apprehenfions of the power of France, inYo crirical Swift Junéture, wholly laid afide 6. Producing a crifis or change of the difeafe as, a critical fweat Cri‘ricaLLy. adv. [from critical. 1. In a critical manner; exaltly ; curi oufly Difficult it is to underftand the purity of Englifh and critically to difcern good writers from bad and a proper ftile from a corrupt one Dryden Thefe fhells which are digged up out of th earth, feveral hundreds of which I now keep b me, hav bee nicel an b critically examine Weodward very many learned men 2. At the exact point of time Cri‘rrcaLNEss. z /. [from critical.] Exactnefs accuracy nicety ; incidenc at a particular point of time 7o Cr1‘TiCISE. @. n. [from critick. 1. To play the critick; to judge ; to writ remarks upon any performance of literature; to point out faults and beauties They who can criticife fo weakly, as to imagin I have done my worft, may be convinced, at thei own coft, that I can write feverely with more eaf than I can gently Dryden Know well each ancient's proper charalter Without ali this at once before your eyes Pspe Cavil you may, but never criticife 2. To animadvert upon as faulty Nor would I have his father look fo narrowl into thefe accounts, as to take-occafion fro Locke thence to ¢riticife on his expences 7o Cri'r1CISE, w. a. [from critick] T cenfure ; to pafs judgment upon Nor thall I ook upon it as any breach of charity, to criticife the autho, fo long as I keep clea Addifori of the perfon If ideas and words were diftinétly weighed, an he would never have brough What wouldft thou write of me, if thou fhould( praife me ?- Cri'ricism. 1. Criticifm, a Ariftotle, wa ing well /i [from critick. 1t was firft inftituted b meant a ftandard of judgDrydex's Innocence, Preface 2. Remark ; animadverfion critical ob {ervations There is not 4 Greek or Latin critick, who ha not fhewn, even in the ftile of his criticifms, that h was a maiter of all the eloquence and delicacy o his native tongue Addifo 7o CROAK # [cpacezzan Saxon crocare, Italian; crocitare, Latin. 1. To make a hoarfe low noife, like a frog The fubtle fwallow flies about the breck And querulous frogs in muddy pools do croak May's Virgil So when Jove's block defcended:from on high Loud thunder to its bottom fhook the bog Popr And the hoarfe nation creat'd Blood, ftuff'd in fkins, is Britifh chriftians food And France robs marfhes of the ¢roaking brood Gay 3 2. T |
