Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CRI-TIQUE', or CRI-TIC', n. [Fr. critique.]

1. A critical examination of the merits of a performance; remarks or animadversions on beauties and faults. Addison wrote a critique on Paradise Lost.
2. Science of criticism; standard or rules of judging of the merit of performances. If ideas and words were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic. – Locke.