tritical

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Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.

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tritical (comparative more tritical, superlative most tritical)

  1. (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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