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Critic vs Diderotian - What's the difference?

critic | diderotian |

As adjectives the difference between critic and diderotian

is that critic is critical while diderotian is of or pertaining to (1713–1784), prominent french philosopher, art critic, and writer of the enlightenment.

As a noun critic

is critic.

critic

English

(wikipedia critic)

Alternative forms

* critick (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person who appraises the works of others.
  • * Macaulay
  • 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.
  • A specialist in judging works of art.
  • One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
  • * I. Watts
  • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  • An opponent.
  • (an act of criticism)
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Make each day a critic on the last.
  • (the art of criticism)
  • * 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.

    Verb

  • (obsolete, ambitransitive) To criticise.
  • * A. Brewer
  • Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

    Anagrams

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    diderotian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to (1713–1784), prominent French philosopher, art critic, and writer of the Enlightenment.
  • Anagrams

    * English eponyms