criterialadj.

1893 in N.E.D. at Criterional ]

1957 Psychol. Rev. 64 123/2 On the basis of certain defining or criterial attributes in the input..there is a selective placing of the input in one category of identity rather than another.

1962 U. Weinreich in F. W. Householder & S. Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 33 The word ‘especially’ preceding the statement of a condition indicates that what follows is less criterial than the rest.

1967 Philos. Rev. 76 49 This criterial account of perception statements embodies an observation of several contemporary philosophers.

1975 T. Parsons in Glazer & Moynihan Ethnicity 56 In spite of the difficulty of being specific about criterial features and components, what social scientists have called ethnic groups do not belong to a relatively distinct sociological type.

1983 G. Brown & G. Yule Discourse Anal. vi. 196 It seems to be the case then that ‘texture’, in the sense of explicit realisation of semantic relations, is not criterial to the identification and co-interpretation of texts.