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Critic vs Expiate - What's the difference?

critic | expiate |

As verbs the difference between critic and expiate

is that critic is to criticise while expiate is to atone or make reparation for.

As a noun critic

is a person who appraises the works of others.

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.

    Related terms

    * crisis * criticism * critical * critical mass * criticize / criticise * critically * critique * criterion

    Verb

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

    Anagrams

    * ----

    expiate

    English

    Verb

  • (transitive, or, intransitive) To atone or make reparation for.
  • * Clarendon
    • The Treasurer obliged himself to expiate the injury.
  • * 1888 , Leo XIII, "",
    • Thus those pious souls who expiate the remainder of their sins amidst such tortures will receive a special and opportune consolation,
  • * 1913 , ,
    • I am going out to expiate a great wrong, Paul. A very necessary feature of the expiation is the marksmanship of my opponent.
  • To make amends or pay the penalty for.
  • * 1876 , ,
    • He had only to live and expiate in solitude the crimes which he had committed.
  • (obsolete) To relieve or cleanse of guilt.
  • * 1829 , , Larcher's Notes on Herodotus , vol. 2, p. 195,
    • and Epimenides was brought from Crete to expiate the city.
  • To purify with sacred rites.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xviii. 10 (Douay version)
    • Neither let there be found among you any one that shall expiate his son or daughter, making them to pass through the fire.

    Usage notes

    Intransitive use, constructed with (for) (like (atone)), is obsolete in Christian usage, but fairly common in informal discussions of Islam.

    Related terms

    * expiation * expiator * expiatory ----