Latinized form of Gr. κριτήριον CRITERION, occas. used in English.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm., lxi. 612. This is our Criterium and onely this; hereby we know it.
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.
1867. Lewes, Hist. Philos., I. 181. There is no criterium of truth.
