tritical
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
tritical (comparative more tritical, superlative most tritical)
- (obsolete) trite
- 1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington:
- his conjectures often betray a want either of discernment or of experience; and he appears, from a tritical philosophy, to have carried his uncommon credulity, and a peculiar propensity to the marvellous, into our British, Roman, and Dano-Saxon Archaeology.
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References[edit]
- “tritical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.