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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Cf. F.

topique

, LL.

topicus

, Gr. [GREEK]. See

Noun.

]

Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application;

as, a

topical

remedy; a

topical

claim or privilege

(Rhet. & logic)

Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.

Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.

Evidences of fact can be no more than

topical

and probable.

Sir M. Hale.

Adj.

[supra.] Pertaining to a place, limited; local; as a topical remedy.

Pertaining to a topic or subject of discourse, or to a general head.