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  • noun Obsolete form of hypercritic.

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Examples

  • If the hypercritick will go upon this; and is resolved after all to take a pendulum, and measure the true distance betwixt the ringing of the bell, and the rap at the door; — and, after finding it to be no more than two minutes, thirteen seconds, and three-fifths, — should take upon him to insult over me for such

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • If the hypercritick will go upon this; and is resolved after all to take a pendulum, and measure the true distance betwixt the ringing of the bell, and the rap at the door; — and, after finding it to be no more than two minutes, thirteen seconds, and three-fifths, — should take upon him to insult over me for such

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

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