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Definition of Criticasters
1. criticaster [n] - See also: criticaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criticasters
Literary usage of Criticasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1891)
"... Arnold by criticasters, is still, among criticasters, common. In Mr.
Arnold himself I suspect the prejudice to have been partly mere crotchet (for great ..."
2. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury (1895)
"by criticasters, is still, among criticasters, common. In Mr Arnold himself I
suspect the prejudice to have been partly mere crotchet (for great critic as ..."
3. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"This has at once been pounced upon by the funny tribe of criticasters, ...
and criticasters prepared to prove that these things are really dead ? that • he ..."
4. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"That people which is a God in intellect and in heart, compared with the criticasters
that try to misguide it with their shallow guesses and cant. ..."
5. The Eighth Commandment by Charles Reade (1860)
"Against these, who but criticasters and lunatics ever oppose a priori reasoning
in this century? The last instance is Cephalomancy pushed further than usual ..."
6. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1920)
"Little did he imagine how he would be arraigned, after the lapse of full three
centuries, by English criticasters for what, at the very worst, ..."
7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1853)
"It is very curious, only that we criticasters are so apt to overrun our game,
that the only place where 5' charm your tongue” really occurs, ..."
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