1. (n.) A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art\; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and through analysis of any subject; a criticism; as, Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.

2. (n.) The art of criticism.

3. (n.) A critic; one who criticizes.

4. (v.) To criticize or pass judgment upon.

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