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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.

Having no crisis; giving no indications of a crisis; as, acritical symptoms, an acritical abscess.

ters 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 will reveal great difficulties, which diacritical marks necessarily throw in the way of both printer and writer. A. J. Ellis.

Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious. "Hypercritical readers." Swift.

In a hypercritical manner.

Of or pertaining to a hypocrite, or to hypocrisy; as, a hypocriticalperson; a hypocritical look; a hypocritical action. Hypocritical professions of friendship and of pacific intentions were not spared. Macaulay. -- Hyp`o*crit"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to the interpretation of dreams. Addison.

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.

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

Severely critical.

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.

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

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.