The Collaborative International Dictionary
Criticise \Crit"i*cise\ (kr?t"?-s?z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Criticised (-s?zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Criticising.] [Written also, more analogically, but less commonly, criticize.] [Cf. G. kritisiren. See Critic.]
To examine and judge as a critic; to pass literary or artistic judgment upon; as, to criticise an author; to criticise a picture.
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To express one's views as to the merit or demerit of; esp., to animadvert upon; to find fault with; as, to criticise conduct.
--Blackwood's Mag.Syn: criticize, pick apart.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of criticise English)
Usage examples of "criticising".
Aylward, who stood in the front row of the archers with Simon, big John, and others of the Company, had been criticising the proceedings from the commencement with the ease and freedom of a man who had spent his life under arms and had learned in a hard school to know at a glance the points of a horse and his rider.
He would not for a moment have you believe that he wants more of you than food and warmth and shelter and amusement -- and he is certainly justified in criticising your aesthetic and imaginative development if you fail to find his grace, beauty, and cheerful decorative influence an aboundingly sufficient repayment for all you give him.
It sits in judgment not only on its own townsmen but on the rest of the world -- enlightening, criticising, ostracizing a heedless universe -- and non-conformity to Wentworth standards involves obliteration from Wentworth's consciousness.
Aunt Marge loved criticising him, so the untidier he looked, the happier she would be.