Dictionary: CRI-NOID-E'ANS – CRIT'IC

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CRI-NOID-E'ANS, n. [plur.]

A group of radiate marine animals, as the sea-urchin, &c.

CRI'NOSE, a.

Hairy. [See Crinite.] [Little used.]

CRI-NOS'I-TY, n.

Hairiness. [Little used.]

CRIP'PLE, a.

Lame. – Shak.

CRIP'PLE, n. [cri'pl; D. kreupel; G. krüppel; Dan. krypling, kröppel, and kröbling from kröb, a creeping aninal; Ice. crypen, to move crooked. It would seem that this is from the root of creep.]

A lame person; primarily, one who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never enjoyed the use of his limbs. – Acts xiv. The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing. – Pope.

CRIP'PLE, v.t.

  1. To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet.
  2. To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement.

CRIP'PLED, pp.

Lamed; rendered impotent in the limbs; disabled.

CRIP'PLE-NESS, n.

Lameness.

CRIP'PLING, ppr.

Laming; depriving of the use of the limbs; disabling.

CRI'SIS, n. [plur. Crises. Gr. κρισις, L. crisis, from the root of κρινω, to separate, to determine, to decide. See Crime.]

  1. In medical science, the change of a disease which indicates its event; that change which indicates recovery or death. It is sometimes used to designate the excretion of something noxious from the body, or of the noxious fluids in a fever. – Encyc. Parr.
  2. The decisive state of things, or the point of time when an affair is arrived to its highth, and must soon terminate or suffer a material change. This hour's the very crisis of your fate. – Dryden.

CRISP, a. [L. crispus; It. crespo; G. kraus. See the Verb.]

  1. Curled; formed into curls or ringlets.
  2. Indented; winding; as, crisp channels. – Shak.
  3. Brittle; friable; easily broken or crumbled. – Bacon.

CRISP, v.t. [L. crispo; It. crespare; Sp. crespar; Fr. crêper; Dan. kruser; Sw. krusa; W. cris, a crust; crisb, a crisp coating; crisbin, crisp, friable; from rhis, broken into points, mince; allied to cresu, crasu, to roast or parch. From the Gothic dialects, we observe that p is not radical. Class Rd, No. 20, 73, Ar.]

  1. To curl; to twist; to contract or form into ringlets, as the hair; to wreathe or interweave, as the branches of trees. – B. Jonson. Milton.
  2. To indent. – Johnson.
  3. To twist or eddy. – Mason. But the sense is, to curl; to wrinkle in little undulations, as, a fretted surface. From that sapphire fount the crisped brooks, / Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold, / Ran nectar, visiting each plant. – Milton.

CRISP-A'TION, n.

The act of curling, or state of being curled. – Bacon.

CRISP'A-TURE, n.

A curling; the state of being curled. – Lee. Botany.

CRISP'ED, pp.

Curled; twisted; frizzled.

CRISP'ING, ppr.

Curling; frizzling.

CRISP'ING-PIN, n.

A curling-iron. – Isaiah.

CRIS-PI-SULC'ANT, a.

Wavy or undulating, as lightning is represented.

CRISP'NESS, n.

A state of being curled; also, brittleness.

CRISP'Y, a.

  1. Curled; formed into ringlets; as, crispy locks. – Shak.
  2. Brittle; dried so as to break short; as, a crispy cake.

CRIST'ATE, or CRIST'A-TED, a. [L. cristatus, from crista, a crest.]

In botany, crested; tufted; having an appendage like a crest or tuft, as some anthers and flowers. – Martyn.

CRI-TE'RI-ON, n. [plur. Criteria. Gr. κριτηριον, from the root of κρινω, to judge. See Crime.]

A standard of judging; any established law, rule, principle or fact, by which facts, propositions and opinions are compared, in order to discover their truth or falsehood, or by which a correct judgment may be formed.

CRITH'O-MAN-CY, n. [Gr. κριθη, barley, and μαντεια, divination.]

A kind of divination by means of the dough of cakes, and the meal strewed over the victims, in ancient sacrifices. – Encyc.

CRIT'IC, a.

Critical; relating to criticism, or the art of judging of the merit of a literary performance or discourse, or of any work in the fine arts. [See Critical.]

CRIT'IC, n. [Gr. κριτικος, from κριτης, a judge or discerner, from the root of κρινω, to judge, to separate, to distinguish. See Crime.]

  1. A person skilled in judging of the merit of literary works; one who is able to discern and distinguish the beauties and faults of writing. In a more general sense, a person skills in judging with propriety of any combination of objects, or of any work of art; and particularly of what are denominated the Fine Arts. A critic is one who, from experience, knowledge, habit or taste, can perceive the difference between propriety mid impropriety, in objects or works presented to his view; between the natural and unnatural; the high and the low, or lofty and mean; the congruous and incongruous; the correct and incorrect, according to the established rules of the art.
  2. An examiner; a judge. And make each day a critic on the last. – Pope.
  3. One who judges with severity; one who censures or finds fault. – Pope. Watts. Swift.