critick

plural criticks

1. archaicArchaic spelling of critic.

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   THERE is nothing so foolish, when you are at the expence of making an entertainment of this kind, as to order things so badly, as to let your criticks and gentry of refined taste run it down: Nor is there any thing so likely to make them do it, as that of leaving them out of the party, or, what is full as offensive, of bestowing your attention upon the rest of your guests in so particular a way, as if there was no such thing as a critick (by occupation) at table.

   1659, Laurence Sterne, chapter XXVII, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman