different between cratic vs critic

English

Etymology

From the suffix -cratic in words such as aristocratic, from French -cratique, from Ancient Greek -???????? (-kratikós). See -cratic for more.

Adjective

cratic (comparative more cratic, superlative most cratic)

1. Relating to counterions.
   • 1999, K. Zakrzewska, R. Lavery, "Modelling DNA-protein interactions", in Computational Molecular Biology (edited by J. Leszczynski; ?ISBN:

     Binding is however favoured by the non-salt dependent free energy, the ion-release cratic free energy and by decreased ion-ion repulsion.
2. Relating to political or organisational power.
   • 1980, José Guilherme Merquior, Rousseau and Weber ?ISBN:

     Arthur Stinchcombe, for example, pioneered what we call the cratic approach when he defined legitimacy as a 'power reserve'.

   • 1987, The Polish Sociological Bulletin:

     The second personal factors influencing the phenomenon of the erosion of power is connected with the characteristics of cratic (power) motivation, also called the need for power.

Anagrams

• Arctic, arctic

English

Alternative forms

• critick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from ????? (krín?, “I judge”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?k??t.?k/
• Rhymes: -?t?k

Noun

critic (plural critics)

1. A person who appraises the works of others.
2. A specialist in judging works of art.
3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.

   • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.

4. An opponent.
5. Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism)
6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
   • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550

     And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

Derived terms

• armchair critic
• criticess

Related terms

Translations

Verb

critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)

1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
   • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority

     Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Anagrams

• citric

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?c???t??c/

Noun

critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)

1. critique

   Synonym: beachtaíocht

2. criticism

   Synonym: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "critic" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “critic” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Ladin

Adjective

critic m pl

1. masculine plural of critich

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French critique and Latin criticus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kri.tik/

Noun

critic m (plural critici)

1. critic

Adjective

critic m or n (feminine singular critic?, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)

1. critical

Declension