Cratic vs Critic - What's the difference?
cratic | critic |
Relating to counterions.
* 1962 , , Ionic Processes in Solution :
* 1999 , K. Zakrzewska, R. Lavery, "Modelling DNA-protein interactions", in Computational Molecular Biology (edited by J. Leszczynski; ISBN 008052964X):
* 2012 , Peter L. Privalov, Microcalorimetry of Macromolecules: The Physical Basis of Biological Structures (ISBN 1118337476):
Relating to political or organisational power.
* 1980 , , Rousseau and Weber (ISBN 071000513X):
* 1987 , The Polish Sociological Bulletin :
* 2004 , (translated by Steven Rendall), Morals and Politics (ISBN 0268030650):
A person who appraises the works of others.
* Macaulay
A specialist in judging works of art.
One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
* I. Watts
An opponent.
(an act of criticism)
* Alexander Pope
(the art of criticism)
* John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
(obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
* A. Brewer
As an adjective cratic
is relating to counterions.As a noun critic is
a person who appraises the works of others.As a verb critic is
to criticise.cratic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- If we go on to consider the reaction in a solution so dilute that the interionic forces make a negligible contribution to the communal term in ?F , we may refer to the cratic term, instead of the communal term;
- Binding is however favoured by the non-salt dependent free energy, the ion-release cratic free energy and by decreased ion-ion repulsion.
- In the case of electrostatic entropy this is just what is expected if it represents the cratic entropy of mixing of the couterions released on binding with the ions in the bulk solution: it should be positive and independent of temperature.
- Arthur Stinchcombe, for example, pioneered what we call the cratic approach when he defined legitimacy as a 'power reserve'.
- 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.
- Anyone who seeks power is almost necessarily compelled to seek state power as well; to this extent the cratic inevitably refers to the political.
critic
English
(wikipedia critic)Alternative forms
* critick (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller ] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
- When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
- Make each day a critic on the last.
- 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.
Verb
- Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.
