单词 | critico- |
释义 | critico-comb. form 1. a. Forming adjectives with the sense ‘critical and ——’, as in critico-biographical, critico-poetical, critico-theoretical, etc. ΚΠ 1775 ‘Layman’ Strictures on Churches of Rome, Eng. & Scotl. 137 The Critico-theological Mountain obstetrically delivered of a—Conjecture. 1789 Gentleman's Mag. Oct. 890/1 It would be most injurious to Mr. Warton's critico-poetical character. 1878 E. Moore tr. K. R. Hagenbach Hist. Reformation Germany & Switzerland I. iv. 87 The critico-philosophical tendency of the Humanists and of Erasmus ran parallel with the predominantly theological bias of Luther. 1891 Presbyterian & Reformed Rev. July 553 He takes up the critico-speculative standpoint in his interpretations of philosophical development. 1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. p. xcii/2 An interesting critico-biographical study by E. Gollerbach. 1996 D. Drew in E. Harsh Die Dreigroschenoper 150/2 This Edition is..distanced from all critico-theological debates about dualisms and multiplicities. 2006 Hispania 89 733 Ayala gives more importance to his creative work than to his critico-theoretical writings. b. critico-historical adj. Brit. /ˌkrɪtᵻkəʊhɪˈstɒrᵻkl/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪdəkoʊhɪˈstɔrək(ə)l/ ΚΠ 1774 C. Vallancey Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis I. iii. (title) A critico-historical dissertation. 1876 J. Tulloch Christian Doctr. Sin 208 The critico-historical labours of Kuenen and others are now well known. 1981 A. Unterman Jews iii. 39 A controversy over the published views of a member of the rabbinical establishment..which were sympathetic to a critico-historical view of the Bible. 2016 Renaissance Q. 69 658 A hefty critico-historical apparatus covering her activities as an artist, a workshop master, an intellectual, and a teacher. 2. Forming a small number of nouns (usually for comic effect). criticometer n. Brit. /ˌkrɪtᵻˈkɒmᵻtə/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪdəˈkɑmədər/ rare a device which measures or assesses the work or reactions of critics. [ < critico- comb. form + -meter comb. form2.] ΚΠ 1851 J. Hamilton Royal Preacher Pref. p. viii We have thought it better to leave our criticometer incomplete for the present. 1883 Athenæum 20 Oct. 493/1 We thus obtain a scientific measurement of the thought..and the criticometer is before us. 1932 Austral. Musical News 1 July 8/1 I do hope most fervently that no scientist will ever..demand that I shall..think very hard about Beethoven or Bela Bartok and then apply a criticometer to my brow in order to get what he will call my Reactions. criticophobia n. Brit. /ˌkrɪtᵻkə(ʊ)ˈfəʊbɪə/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪdəkoʊˈfoʊbiə/ , /ˌkrɪdəkəˈfoʊbiə/ rare fear or dread of critics.ΚΠ 1809 ‘Democritus Minor’ Let. in Athenæum Feb. 120 The leading symptom of the Criticophobia is a nervous restlessness, which usually comes on towards the end of a month or a quarter. 1931 H. W. Boynton James Fenimore Cooper ii. ii. 116 Lounsbury ponders rather heavily upon this Cooperian criticophobia, and makes much of the novelist's sensitiveness to opinion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < comb. form1774 |
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