Word Meanings - CRITICASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.

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• CRITICISER
  One who criticises; a critic.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• CRITICASTER
  A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne.
• CRITIC
  1. One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer. The opininon of the most skillful critics was,
• RANCOROUS
  Full of rancor; evincing, or caused by, rancor; deeply malignant; implacably spiteful or malicious; intensely virulent. So flamed his eyes with rage and rancorous ire. Spenser.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• CRITICALNESS
  1. The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time. 2. Accuracy in examination or decision; exactness.
• VICIOUS
  1. Characterized by vice or defects; defective; faulty; imperfect. Though I perchance am vicious in my guess. Shak. The title of these lords was vicious in its origin. Burke. A charge against Bentley of vicious reasoning. De Quincey. 2. Addicted
• REPTILE
  reptum, to creep; cf. Lith. reploti; perh. akin to L. serpere. Cf. 1. Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs. 2. Hence: Groveling; low; vulgar; as, a reptile race or crew; reptile vices. There is also a false, reptile
• CRITICISE
  1. To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture. 2. To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with;
• RANCOROUSLY
  In a rancorous manner.
• CRITICISABLE
  Capable of being criticised.
• CONTEMPTIBLE
  1. Worthy of contempt; deserving of scorn or disdain; mean; vile; despicable. Milton. The arguments of tyranny are ascontemptible as its force is dreadful. Burke. 2. Despised; scorned; neglected; abject. Locke. 3. Insolent; scornful; contemptuous.
• CRITICAL
  Pertaining to, or indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical stage of a fever; a critical situation.
• CRITICISM
  1. The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism. The elements
• DECOMPOSED
  Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.
• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• ONIROCRITIC
  See ONEIROCRITIC
• ACRITICAL
  Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .
• HYPERCRITICISM
  Excessive criticism, or unjust severity or rigor of criticism; zoilism.
• ECCRITIC
  A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.
• NEOCRITICISM
  The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
• ONEIROCRITICISM; ONEIROCRITICS
  The art of interpreting dreams.
• DIACRITIC; DIACRITICAL
  That separates or distinguishes; -- applied to points or marks used to distinguish letters of similar form, or different sounds of the same letter, as, a, â, ä, o, ô, etc. "Diacritical points." Sir W. Jones. A glance at this typography
• HYPOCRITIC
  See SWIFT