ǁ Criterium. World English Historical Dictionary

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Latinized form of Gr. κριτήριον CRITERION, occas. used in English.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Serm., lxi. 612. This is our Criterium and onely this; hereby we know it.

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a. 1734.  North, Exam., I. iii. § 62 (1740), 170. It ever was and will be a certain Criterium of Truth, to be easy … clear and intelligible.

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1867.  Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. 181. There is no criterium of truth.

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