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  1. noun One who forms and expresses judgments of the merits, faults, value, or truth of a matter.
  2. noun One who specializes especially professionally in the evaluation and appreciation of literary or artistic works: a film critic; a dance critic.
  3. noun One who tends to make harsh or carping judgments; a faultfinder.

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  • [60] And, to be candid, the critic was able to bring together an anthology of quotations which seemed like a rather forcible indictment of Schiller's literary taste. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
  • In another fifty years, perhaps, the critic will be able to say that its main interest is largely historic and literary. —  Haydn
  • He's mentioned as a critic is the artciles, but then there's this, from the —  MetaFilter
  • If you see an early review by a name critic, and the review is bad, some publicist is getting fired the next business day and some critic is probably getting banned from screenings by that studio. —  Ain't It Cool News - The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.
  • Being a critic is about learning to to develop that taste, which can never be fully formed, but, rather, is always in a Hegelian process of "becoming" if the critic is to be any good. —  VQR
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historian ·  writer ·  criticism ·  observer ·  journalist ·  reader ·  politician ·  editor ·  teacher ·  musician ·  novelist ·  judge

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  1. Latin criticus, from Greek kritikos, able to discern, from kritēs, judge, from krīnein, to separate, judge; see krei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly critick, critique; from French critique, a critic, criticism, adjective critical, critic, = Spanish crítico, a critic, adjective critical, critic, crítica, criticism, = Portuguese Italian critico, a critic, adjective critical, critic, critica, criticism, = Dutch kritiek, criticism, adjective critic, critical, kritikus, a critic, = G. Danish Swedish kritik, criticism, G. Danish kritiker, Danish Swedish kritikus, a critic (cf. D. G. kritisch = Danish Swedish kritisk, critical, critic), from Latin criticus, adjective, capable of judging, n. a critic, feminine (New Latin) critica, n., criticism, critique, from Greek κριτικός, adjective, fit for judging, decisive, critical, n. a critic, from κριτής, a judge, from κρίνειν, separate, judge: see crisis, crime, certain.
  2. = French critiquer, criticize; from the noun.
 

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