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Deep sorrow and penitence for sin; contrition.

The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing. [Obs.] The breaking of their parts into less parts by contrition. Sir I. Newton.

To triturate; to pulverize. [R.]

See Iolite.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

Frequency. [Obs.] Bailey.

d in forming a correct judgment respecting them. Of the diseases of the mind there is no criterion. Donne. Inferences founded on such enduring criteria. Sir G. C. Lewis.

The unit for estimating the weight of a

A kind of divination by means of the dough of the cakes offered in the ancient sacrifices, and the meal strewed over the victims.

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, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's "Traveler"] had appeared in verse since th…

Qualified to criticise, or pass judgment upon, literary or artistic productions. It is submitted to the judgment of more critical ears to direct and determine what is graceful and what is not. Holder.

In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden.

The state or quality of being critical, or of occurring at a critical time.

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

Capable of being criticised.

To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.

One who criticises; a critic.

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 ofcriticism depend on the two principles of Beauty and Truth, one of which i…

The art of criticism. [Written also critic.] [R.]