[See -LING.] = prec.

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1755–6.  Old Maid, No. 18 (1764), 156. I shall therefore say … to the Criticlings [etc.].

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1816.  J. Gilchrist, Philos. Etym., 185. Criticlings may drawl and drivel … about the earliest authors being most original.

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1883.  Lit. World (U.S.), 16 June, 194/1. Thus criticlings at Tennyson may yelp.

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