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hy should any one . . . beat his head about the Latin grammar who does not intend to be a critic Locke.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.

prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.

ifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical. It is a dispute among the critics, whether burlesque poetry runs best in heroic verse, like that of the Dispensary, or in doggerel, like that of Hudibras. Addison.

One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. The day when he was a canter and a rebel. Macaulay.

by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

Corrective punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

to cavil; finding fault without good reason. See Captious. His depreciatory and caviling criticism. Lewis.

A critic; a reviewer. Received with caution by the censors of the press. W. Irving.

y; an element of character; that which characterized. Pope. The characteristics of a true critic. Johnson.

Relating to a climacteric; critical.

To compare critically, as books or manuscripts, in order to note the points of agreement or disagreement. I must collage it, word, with the original Hebrew. Coleridge.

Deducing consequences; reasoning; inferring. [Obs.] "Critical and collective reason." Sir T. Browne.

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; -- often followed by on or upon. A physician to comment on your malady. Shak. Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden…

The act or process of commenting or criticising; exposition. [R.] The spirit of commentation. Whewell.

One well versed in any subject; a skillful or knowing person; a critical judge of any art, particulary of one of the fine arts. The connoisseur is "one who knows," as opposed to the dilettant, who only "thinks he knows." Fairholt.

oversy; a controversialist. How unfriendly is the controvertist to the discernment of the critic! Campbell.

consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal." Shak.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.