criticallyadv.

Brit.

/ˈkrɪtᵻkli/,

/ˈkrɪtᵻkl̩i/, U.S.

/ˈkrɪdək(ə)li/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: critical adj., -ly suffix².

Etymology: < critical adj. + -ly suffix².Compare post-classical Latin critice (1529, in a medical context, or earlier), Hellenistic Greek κριτικῶς with critical judgement, at the crisis of a disease.

I. With reference to criticism.

1. In a way that involves careful observation and evaluation in order to form a judgement. Also: in a way that expresses disapproval or harsh criticism; censoriously; disapprovingly.Quot. 1607 could be taken as showing sense 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adverb] > with delicacy

subtlyc1350

at point devicec1390

point-devicec1425

subtilelya1513

finely1542

to the point device1542

by point device1575

critically1607

exquisitely1626

nicely1638

delicately1776

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [adverb]

critically1607

1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. A2 Whereas I may, (by some more curious in censure, then sound in iudgement) be Critically taxed, that I falsifie the account of time.., let such (that are so nice of stomach) know, that I write as a Poet, not as an Historian.

1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations v. 113 Would we but look critically into our selves.

1792 Monthly Reg. of Lit. Aug. 40 They seldom view a painting without critically examining its merits.

1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xvii. 285 Miss Gladwin eyed her critically.

1940 B. E. Leary & W. S. Gray in W. S. Gray Reading in Gen. Educ. v. 125 News reports, examination questions—all require the reader to appraise, to evaluate, and to think critically.

2016 L. Erdrich LaRose 238 This girl needs building up, said Snow. Yeah, you need some upper body. Josette felt Maggie's arm critically.

a. By means of or with respect to scholarly investigation or analysis; with scholarly accuracy.

ΚΠ

1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman 9 Who are..more critically learned then Christopher Longolius, Iacobus Faber?

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 504 Though not Critically translated.

1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. iii. iii. 406 In the second class, some part of the works of Herodotus, Thucydides,..or of some other prose authors, are read, and grammatically and critically explained.

1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 74 (note) Like most idiomatic, as distinguished from correct writers, he [sc. Dryden] knew very little about the language historically or critically.

1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision viii. 168 A critically revised text of the Septuagint translation.

2002 Isis 93 688/2 All the texts need to be critically edited, with analysis of the dialect, provenance, and codicological structure of each manuscript.

b. In a way that involves or relates to reviewers or reviews of literature, art, cinema, etc.; by critics or in works of criticism.See also critically acclaimed, critically successful, etc., at Compounds.

ΚΠ

1921 Variety 23 Sept. 15/1 Nowadays attractions lauded unanimously by the newspapers are often passed up coldly by the playgoing public, while shows critically derided seem to have a way of their own of attracting.

1933 Private Hospitals (N.Y.) Oct. 30/1 Here is a play utterly different from the ordinary run of dramatic ventures, yet hailed critically as one of the better entertainments this fall.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Late City Final ed.) c11/2 The movie opened solidly, and has generally been well received critically.

2014 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 27 Nov. (All but Toronto ed.) b6 We're in a time now where songwriters who sing about controversial stuff are lauded critically.

II. With reference to a crisis or decisive point.

3. At, in, or as part of a crisis of a disease. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [adverb] > critical

critically1615

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια xi. vi. 841 Hence also it is that many Pleuriticke Patients are critically purged, Nature anoyding [sic] an aboundant quantity of Pus and Matter by the vrine.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 That..Distemper of little Children..wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the unquiet Symptoms.

1807 H. Clutterbuck Inq. Seat & Nature Fever i. iii. 123 Fever is sometimes terminated critically, in consequence of inflammation arising in some external part of the body.

1944 Public Health Rep. 59 389 These findings continued through several days until about 20 to 30 hours before death when the temperature fell critically.

†4. With precision or exactness; exactly, precisely, accurately; (occasionally also) at a precise or particular time; punctually. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > punctuality > [adverb]

punctually1652

critically1655

sharp1840

on time1854

prompt1869

on the dot1875

dot1894

prepunctually1894

on or to the tick1902

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb]

rightlyeOE

righteOE

evenOE

evenlya1225

redlyc1275

justicelya1375

justilya1375

justlya1375

redilya1375

trulya1375

properlya1382

precisec1392

preciselyc1392

truec1392

straitlya1395

leala1400

arightc1405

by linec1420

justlyc1425

featlya1450

rule-righta1450

to the letter?1495

exquisitely1526

evenliklya1530

very1530

absolutely1538

jump1539

just1568

accurately1581

punctually1581

jumplya1586

arights1596

just so1601

plumb1601

compassly1606

nicelya1616

squarely1626

justa1631

adequately1632

mathematicallya1638

critically1655

exquisitively1660

just1665

pointedly1667

faithfully1690

correctlya1704

jus1801

jest1815

jes1851

neat1875

cleanly1883

on the nose1883

smack-dab1892

spot on1920

forensically1974

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 8 Others more warily affirm, that it doth not punctually and critically bud on Christmas day.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 264 I enquir'd of him more critically, What was become of them?

1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 322 He gave me an Account, which I believe was critically Just, of the whole Affair of the Plantations.

1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. iii. 27 The point of concourse..must fall critically upon the retina, or the vision is confused.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xl. 363 This hole was critically circular.

†5. At a critical moment; just in time. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] > in or at a critical moment

in the Godspeed1667

critically1689

crucially1879

1689 Bp. G. Burnet Serm. preached before Prince of Orange 7 This comming so critically, in the very time in which the Repeal of Laws was to be asked in their favours, was a..sensible Argument against it.

a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. iv. 33 The Hatches were opened, and indeed very critically, for a Minute's Confinement longer would have terminated in our Destruction.

1799 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Jan. in Writings (1859) IV. 263 Could these debates be ready to appear critically, their effect would be decisive.

1822 G. Brodie Hist. Brit. Empire IV. x. 30 Baillie and he having crossed the Tay, arrived critically to save Dundee.

6. To a potentially disastrous or extremely detrimental degree; dangerously. With reference to illness or injury: to a life-threatening degree; very seriously.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adverb] > insecurely or unsafely > precariously

tickle1606

ticklishly1640

critically1762

precariously1836

1762 C. Johnstone Reverie II. i. vi. 26 You are acquainted with my family, and the particular circumstances of it, which made my situation more critically dangerous even than that of the generality of my sex.

1793 Lady Wallace Conduct of King of Prussia & Gen. Dumourier (ed. 2) 23 Dumourier..resigned the administration to take the command of the army, thus critically exposed.

1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Apr. 6/3 The Swazi King is critically ill.

1989 Nature Conservancy Mar. 26/2 The marshland also harbors slender water-milfoil.., a plant species critically endangered in Maryland.

2004 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. 35/1 A taxi driver and his two passengers were critically injured yesterday when a yellow cab spun out of control on East 54th Street.

7. To a significant degree; crucially; significantly. Also as a sentence adverb.

ΚΠ

1781 G. Washington Let. 2 Sept. in Writings (1835) VIII. 153 You see how critically important the present moment is.

1820 G. Miller Lect. Philos. Mod. Hist. IV. 383 The naval communication with India was thus critically necessary to the interests of Europe.

1986 Hansard Commons 20 June 1310 Not only will they now have the important flexibility of carrying money over from one financial year to the next..but, critically, this measure will give them a stimulus to implement innovative marketing strategies.

2007 Computer Weekly 30 Oct. 20/3 Today, society is critically dependent on online systems.

8. In a way that determines or decides an issue; decisively. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [adverb] > conclusively

definitively1532

concludentlya1575

demonstrativelya1591

demonstrably1616

concludingly1640

decisively1643

deictically1659

conclusively1749

decidedly1779

critically1857

crucially1879

1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration ii. 36 This..is no exception, but critically confirms our allegation.

2014 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Oct. 38 For US law, the critically confirming Supreme Court case is Paquete Habana (1900).

9. Physics and Chemistry. In or at a point of transition from one state to another. Cf. critical adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > limit or threshold

critically1881

1881 W. M. Williams in Knowledge 23 Dec. 157/1 Elementary substances may exist as solids, liquids, or gases, or critically, according to the conditions of temperature and pressure.

1908 Proc. Section Sci. Koninklijke Akad. van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 10 611 The importance of such an investigation for the knowledge of the internal structure of the critically turbid media.

1973 H. Überall in W. P. Mason Physical Acoustics X. i. iv. 36 The surface ray splits into three parts, either continuing, shedding a tangential ray to the outside, or a critically refracted ray to the inside.

2000 M. Mukhopadhyay Nat. Extracts using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide ii. 31 Two liquid phases critically merge to form a single phase as the temperature is increased.

Compounds

Combining with adjectives and past participles to form adjectives with the sense ‘by critics or in works of criticism’, as critically acclaimed, critically panned, critically successful, etc.

ΚΠ

1930 Variety 14 May 28/5 ‘Journey's End’ is the only 100% critically endorsed picture in the history of filmdom.

1972 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 6 July 2/3 The local drive-in has a double bill headed by ‘Skyjacked’, the topical, critically panned film about an airplane.

1984 Cineaste 13 56/3 The two most ambitious and successful essays in the book..examine critically-reviled and historically-neglected genres of commercial television.

1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 27 July The artist's most notable and critically significant works are on canvas.

2003 Guardian 3 May (Review section) 26/1 Her commercially and critically successful novel, Restoration.

2020 Variety (Nexis) 14 May Her second studio album..earned a whopping 89 score on Metacritic, making it one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2020.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).

单词	critically
释义	criticallyadv. Brit. /ˈkrɪtᵻkli/, /ˈkrɪtᵻkl̩i/, U.S. /ˈkrɪdək(ə)li/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: critical adj., -ly suffix². Etymology: < critical adj. + -ly suffix².Compare post-classical Latin critice (1529, in a medical context, or earlier), Hellenistic Greek κριτικῶς with critical judgement, at the crisis of a disease. I. With reference to criticism. 1. In a way that involves careful observation and evaluation in order to form a judgement. Also: in a way that expresses disapproval or harsh criticism; censoriously; disapprovingly.Quot. 1607 could be taken as showing sense 2a. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > [adverb] > with delicacy subtlyc1350 at point devicec1390 point-devicec1425 subtilelya1513 finely1542 to the point device1542 by point device1575 critically1607 exquisitely1626 nicely1638 delicately1776 the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > criticism > [adverb] critically1607 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. A2 Whereas I may, (by some more curious in censure, then sound in iudgement) be Critically taxed, that I falsifie the account of time.., let such (that are so nice of stomach) know, that I write as a Poet, not as an Historian. 1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations v. 113 Would we but look critically into our selves. 1792 Monthly Reg. of Lit. Aug. 40 They seldom view a painting without critically examining its merits. 1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne I. xvii. 285 Miss Gladwin eyed her critically. 1940 B. E. Leary & W. S. Gray in W. S. Gray Reading in Gen. Educ. v. 125 News reports, examination questions—all require the reader to appraise, to evaluate, and to think critically. 2016 L. Erdrich LaRose 238 This girl needs building up, said Snow. Yeah, you need some upper body. Josette felt Maggie's arm critically. 2. a. By means of or with respect to scholarly investigation or analysis; with scholarly accuracy. ΚΠ 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman 9 Who are..more critically learned then Christopher Longolius, Iacobus Faber? 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 504 Though not Critically translated. 1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. iii. iii. 406 In the second class, some part of the works of Herodotus, Thucydides,..or of some other prose authors, are read, and grammatically and critically explained. 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 74 (note) Like most idiomatic, as distinguished from correct writers, he [sc. Dryden] knew very little about the language historically or critically. 1883 A. Roberts O.T. Revision viii. 168 A critically revised text of the Septuagint translation. 2002 Isis 93 688/2 All the texts need to be critically edited, with analysis of the dialect, provenance, and codicological structure of each manuscript. b. In a way that involves or relates to reviewers or reviews of literature, art, cinema, etc.; by critics or in works of criticism.See also critically acclaimed, critically successful, etc., at Compounds. ΚΠ 1921 Variety 23 Sept. 15/1 Nowadays attractions lauded unanimously by the newspapers are often passed up coldly by the playgoing public, while shows critically derided seem to have a way of their own of attracting. 1933 Private Hospitals (N.Y.) Oct. 30/1 Here is a play utterly different from the ordinary run of dramatic ventures, yet hailed critically as one of the better entertainments this fall. 1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Aug. (Late City Final ed.) c11/2 The movie opened solidly, and has generally been well received critically. 2014 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 27 Nov. (All but Toronto ed.) b6 We're in a time now where songwriters who sing about controversial stuff are lauded critically. II. With reference to a crisis or decisive point. 3. At, in, or as part of a crisis of a disease. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > [adverb] > critical critically1615 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια xi. vi. 841 Hence also it is that many Pleuriticke Patients are critically purged, Nature anoyding [sic] an aboundant quantity of Pus and Matter by the vrine. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 5 That..Distemper of little Children..wherein they critically break out with harsh Hairs on their Backs, which takes off the unquiet Symptoms. 1807 H. Clutterbuck Inq. Seat & Nature Fever i. iii. 123 Fever is sometimes terminated critically, in consequence of inflammation arising in some external part of the body. 1944 Public Health Rep. 59 389 These findings continued through several days until about 20 to 30 hours before death when the temperature fell critically. †4. With precision or exactness; exactly, precisely, accurately; (occasionally also) at a precise or particular time; punctually. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > punctuality > [adverb] punctually1652 critically1655 sharp1840 on time1854 prompt1869 on the dot1875 dot1894 prepunctually1894 on or to the tick1902 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > exactness, accuracy, precision > [adverb] rightlyeOE righteOE evenOE evenlya1225 redlyc1275 justicelya1375 justilya1375 justlya1375 redilya1375 trulya1375 properlya1382 precisec1392 preciselyc1392 truec1392 straitlya1395 leala1400 arightc1405 by linec1420 justlyc1425 featlya1450 rule-righta1450 to the letter?1495 exquisitely1526 evenliklya1530 very1530 absolutely1538 jump1539 just1568 accurately1581 punctually1581 jumplya1586 arights1596 just so1601 plumb1601 compassly1606 nicelya1616 squarely1626 justa1631 adequately1632 mathematicallya1638 critically1655 exquisitively1660 just1665 pointedly1667 faithfully1690 correctlya1704 jus1801 jest1815 jes1851 neat1875 cleanly1883 on the nose1883 smack-dab1892 spot on1920 forensically1974 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 8 Others more warily affirm, that it doth not punctually and critically bud on Christmas day. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 264 I enquir'd of him more critically, What was become of them? 1722 D. Defoe Hist. Col. Jack 322 He gave me an Account, which I believe was critically Just, of the whole Affair of the Plantations. 1802 W. Paley Nat. Theol. iii. 27 The point of concourse..must fall critically upon the retina, or the vision is confused. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xl. 363 This hole was critically circular. †5. At a critical moment; just in time. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [adverb] > in or at a critical moment in the Godspeed1667 critically1689 crucially1879 1689 Bp. G. Burnet Serm. preached before Prince of Orange 7 This comming so critically, in the very time in which the Repeal of Laws was to be asked in their favours, was a..sensible Argument against it. a1753 P. Drake Memoirs (1755) I. iv. 33 The Hatches were opened, and indeed very critically, for a Minute's Confinement longer would have terminated in our Destruction. 1799 T. Jefferson Let. 16 Jan. in Writings (1859) IV. 263 Could these debates be ready to appear critically, their effect would be decisive. 1822 G. Brodie Hist. Brit. Empire IV. x. 30 Baillie and he having crossed the Tay, arrived critically to save Dundee. 6. To a potentially disastrous or extremely detrimental degree; dangerously. With reference to illness or injury: to a life-threatening degree; very seriously. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adverb] > insecurely or unsafely > precariously tickle1606 ticklishly1640 critically1762 precariously1836 1762 C. Johnstone Reverie II. i. vi. 26 You are acquainted with my family, and the particular circumstances of it, which made my situation more critically dangerous even than that of the generality of my sex. 1793 Lady Wallace Conduct of King of Prussia & Gen. Dumourier (ed. 2) 23 Dumourier..resigned the administration to take the command of the army, thus critically exposed. 1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Apr. 6/3 The Swazi King is critically ill. 1989 Nature Conservancy Mar. 26/2 The marshland also harbors slender water-milfoil.., a plant species critically endangered in Maryland. 2004 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. 35/1 A taxi driver and his two passengers were critically injured yesterday when a yellow cab spun out of control on East 54th Street. 7. To a significant degree; crucially; significantly. Also as a sentence adverb. ΚΠ 1781 G. Washington Let. 2 Sept. in Writings (1835) VIII. 153 You see how critically important the present moment is. 1820 G. Miller Lect. Philos. Mod. Hist. IV. 383 The naval communication with India was thus critically necessary to the interests of Europe. 1986 Hansard Commons 20 June 1310 Not only will they now have the important flexibility of carrying money over from one financial year to the next..but, critically, this measure will give them a stimulus to implement innovative marketing strategies. 2007 Computer Weekly 30 Oct. 20/3 Today, society is critically dependent on online systems. 8. In a way that determines or decides an issue; decisively. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > proof, demonstration > [adverb] > conclusively definitively1532 concludentlya1575 demonstrativelya1591 demonstrably1616 concludingly1640 decisively1643 deictically1659 conclusively1749 decidedly1779 critically1857 crucially1879 1857 J. Keble On Eucharistical Adoration ii. 36 This..is no exception, but critically confirms our allegation. 2014 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 17 Oct. 38 For US law, the critically confirming Supreme Court case is Paquete Habana (1900). 9. Physics and Chemistry. In or at a point of transition from one state to another. Cf. critical adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > limit or threshold critically1881 1881 W. M. Williams in Knowledge 23 Dec. 157/1 Elementary substances may exist as solids, liquids, or gases, or critically, according to the conditions of temperature and pressure. 1908 Proc. Section Sci. Koninklijke Akad. van Wetenschappen te Amsterdam 10 611 The importance of such an investigation for the knowledge of the internal structure of the critically turbid media. 1973 H. Überall in W. P. Mason Physical Acoustics X. i. iv. 36 The surface ray splits into three parts, either continuing, shedding a tangential ray to the outside, or a critically refracted ray to the inside. 2000 M. Mukhopadhyay Nat. Extracts using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide ii. 31 Two liquid phases critically merge to form a single phase as the temperature is increased. Compounds Combining with adjectives and past participles to form adjectives with the sense ‘by critics or in works of criticism’, as critically acclaimed, critically panned, critically successful, etc. ΚΠ 1930 Variety 14 May 28/5 ‘Journey's End’ is the only 100% critically endorsed picture in the history of filmdom. 1972 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 6 July 2/3 The local drive-in has a double bill headed by ‘Skyjacked’, the topical, critically panned film about an airplane. 1984 Cineaste 13 56/3 The two most ambitious and successful essays in the book..examine critically-reviled and historically-neglected genres of commercial television. 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 27 July The artist's most notable and critically significant works are on canvas. 2003 Guardian 3 May (Review section) 26/1 Her commercially and critically successful novel, Restoration. 2020 Variety (Nexis) 14 May Her second studio album..earned a whopping 89 score on Metacritic, making it one of the most critically acclaimed albums of 2020. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022). < adv.1607
随便看	pudding course pudding face pudding fender pudding filler pudding fish proto-diasystem proto-doric proto-earth proto-egyptian proto-elamite proto-fascism proto-fascist proto-feminist proto-gallo-romance proto-gallo-romanic proto-germanic proto-god proto-gospel proto-gospel of james proto-gospel of st james proto-greek proto-hattic proto-heresiarch proto-historian proto-historic