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3. Inclined to make nice distinctions, or
to exercise careful judgment and selection; exact; nicely
judicious.

Virgil was so critical in the rites of
religion, that he would never have brought in such prayers as
these, if they had not been agreeable to the Roman customs.

Bp. Stillingfleet.

4. Inclined to criticise or find fault;
fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting.

O gentle lady, do not put me to 't,

For I am nothing, if not critical.

Shak.

5. Characterized by thoroughness and a
reference to principles, as becomes a critic; as, a
critical analysis of a subject.

6. [See Crisis.] Pertaining to, or
indicating, a crisis, turning point, or specially important
juncture; important as regards consequences; hence, of doubtful
issue; attended with risk; dangerous; as, the critical
stage of a fever; a critical situation.

Our circumstances are indeed critical.

Burke.

The small moment, the exact point, the
critical minute, on which every good work so much
depends.

South.


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