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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.

An interpreter of dreams. Bp. Warburton. Addison.

Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.

The art of interpreting dreams.

See Oneirocritic.

being confessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality.

Remarks by way of criticism and usually of censure; adverse criticism; reproof; blame. He dismissed their commissioners with severe and sharp animadversions. Clarendon.

To consider or remark by way of criticism or censure; to express censure; -- with on or upon. I should not animadvert on him . . . if he had not used extreme severity in his judgment of the incomparable Shakespeare. Dryden.

hronicles; history. The short and simple annals of the poor. Gray. It was one of the most critical periods in our annals. Burke.

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

A severe critic. Knowles.

Severely critical.

Severely criticism.

arnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

Pretended; hypocritical; make-believe; as, an assumed character.

Critically discerning; sagacious; shrewd; subtle; crafty.

writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.