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The aim of the paper is to extend the previous author's result [J. Differ. Equations 87, 353-364 (1990; Zbl 0714.35055)]: ``Let \(P\) be a critical ellipic operator on \(\Omega\) (subdomain of a noncompact, connected, Riemannian manifold of dimension \(d\)) and let \(\psi_0\) (resp. \(\widetilde{\psi}_0\)) be a ground state of the operator \(P\) (resp. \(P^*\) -- a formal adjoint of \(P\)) in \(\Omega\), then there exists \(\mu<0\) such that \(P-\mu W(x)\) (where the perturbation \(W\) is a function with compact support \(W\in C_0^\alpha(\Omega)\)) is subcritical in \(\Omega\) if and only if \(\int_\Omega W(x)\psi_0(x) \widetilde{\psi}_0(x) dx>0\)'' to a wider class of perturbations which are called by the author -- weak perturbations. It turns out that small and semismall perturbations that were studied earlier by the author [J. Differ. Equations 80, 237-250 (1989; Zbl 0697.35036)] are weak perturbations. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0890.00039].