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Definition of Criterium
1. Noun. (context: bicycle racing) A mass-start road-cycle race consisting of several laps around a closed circuit, the length of each lap or circuit ranging from about 1/2 mile to about 1 mile. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative form of criterion) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Criterium
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Criterium
Literary usage of Criterium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Origin and Development of Religious Belief by Sabine Baring-Gould (1892)
"... freed science from authority and made observation the test of truth—Luther
made the individual judgment the criterium of religious truths—Descartes made ..."
2. The Biographical History of Philosophy: From Its Origin in Greece Down to by George Henry Lewes (1893)
"Zeno pretended that there was a criterium, which decided between science and ...
He felt that the criterium of the Stoics was itself in need of a criterium. ..."
3. A Philosophical Treatise Concerning the Weakness of Human Understanding by Pierre-Daniel Huet (1725)
"They gave it the Name of criterium, and made it twofold, one to direft our ...
only of this criterium or Rule of Truth, which makes ufe of ..."
4. The Biographical History of Philosophy from Its Origin in Greece Down to the by George Henry Lewes (1881)
"He felt that the criterium of the Stoics was itself in need of a criterium. ...
The great question then pending was this:— What criterium is there of the ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1865)
"It verifies that criterium in the various branches of intellectual activity, ...
It is the property only of a few, and the supreme criterium must be ..."
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