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With him the criterions of merit are propriety, taste, expediency, and fitness.

From The Monikins by Cooper, James Fenimore

Certain rot-producing fungi impart to wood characteristic colors which thus become criterions of weakness.

From The Mechanical Properties of Wood Including a Discussion of the Factors Affecting the Mechanical Properties, and Methods of Timber Testing by Record, Samuel J.

There are two sound criterions for judging the correctness of vocal action,—first, the ease of the action, its naturalness, its flexibility.

From Resonance in Singing and Speaking by Fillebrown, Thomas

Those are the criterions of political changes in England-but, as my conversion is of foreign extraction, I shall not be the richer for it.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

But if these be fallible criterions, we will notice another that seldom deceives us. 

From The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World by Tomlinson, Charles