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1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy To Rdr. 9 Goe now censure, criticize, scoffe and raile.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel Pref. p. i They, who can Criticize so weakly, as to imagine I have done my Worst.

1753 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 220 Her character is pretty; though had I time I could criticise.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1871) III. v. 316 They who criticize are unable to discern the great principle which pervades the whole.

1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Nov. ii. 1/2 When I was younger, I was quick to criticize. That's not productive.

2019 A. Bobrow-Strain Death & Life Aida Hernandez Epil. 333 A gossipy old woman who loves to criticize.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 234 As for those that know him not, and yet would in the censure of him as liberally criticize it, as if they were his cardiognosts, and fully versed in his intentions.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 71 It is very uncivil to criticise or find fault with any dish of meat or sauce during the repast.

1779 S. Johnson Lett. to Mrs. Thrale 11 Oct. The gout that was in my ankles when Queeney criticised my gait.

1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 75 I've heard our front that faces Drury Lane, Much criticised; they say 'tis vulgar brick work.

1971 A. Clarke in M. Atwood & R. Weaver Oxf. Bk. Canad. Short Stories (1986) 226 She never criticized him in public, by gesture or by attitude.

2020 Independent (Nexis) 16 Jan. 6 The government has already been fiercely criticised for lacking urgency and practical solutions for tackling the climate emergency.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy sig. Ddd2^v If a rigid censurer should criticize on this which I haue writ, he should not find three faults as Scaliger in Terence, but 300.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. ⁋61. 213 We criticize much upon the Beauty of Faces.

1810 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. 277 It requires a knowledge of that art to criticise upon the structure of verse.

1867 Belfast News-let. 1 June The Chancellor of the Exchequer then, at some length, proceeded to criticise upon the speeches which had been given in the course of the debate.

1660 S. Fisher Rusticus ad Academicos iii. 45 Which Topick of theirs too they chop to pieces and criticize into such crums and bits.

1724 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 12 Sept. in J. Swift Lett. (1766) II. 268 The verses I sent you are very bad..you would do them too much honour, if you criticized them.

1880 W. MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 49 I will now pass on to criticise a paper recently published.

1951 S. Plath Let. 20 May (2017) I. 325 I took my first painting together with my last one up to be criticized by Mr. Swinton. (The last was a re-doing of the first, using all the ‘skills’ we'd learned this year.)

2001 Jrnl. W. Indian Lit. 9 2 The acquaintance flowered into a full-scale literary friendship, with the two aspiring writers..reading and criticizing each other's work.