TOPICAL • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Topical

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/tˈɑpəkəl/ /tˈɑpɪkəl/ Listen

adjective

Topical adj.

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."

See images of 'Topical'

Etymology of 'Topical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Topical" Quotes from Famous Books

... unamusing ditty, topical in its points. Here and there a smile showed that it did not pass unheard, and as the singer disappeared a faint roulade of applause came from the ...

— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston

... idea of "Rip Van Winkle" would lend itself admirably to Broadway treatment, for Mr. MacKaye has taken liberties, with the legend and introduced the topical idea of a Magic Flask, containing home-made hootch. Hendrick Hudson, the Captain of the Catskill Bowling Team, is the lucky possessor of the doctor's prescription and formula, and it is in order to take a trial spin with the brew that ...

— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

... keeps for effect from the older play, where it is better motivated—there Hamlet started to tell everything to his companions, and the Ghost's cries are meant to indicate displeasure. II, ii, 342; 'The city' is Wittenberg. What follows is a topical allusion to the rivalry at the time of writing between the regular men's theatrical companies and those ...

— A History of English Literature • Robert Huntington Fletcher

... succeeding link of catenation. Hence contagious matter, which has for some weeks stimulated the system into great and permanent sensation, ceases afterwards to produce general sensation, or inflammation, though it may still induce topical irritations. See Sect. XXXIII. 2. 8. ...

— Zoonomia, Vol. I - Or, the Laws of Organic Life • Erasmus Darwin

... but, after traveling over somewhat the same route which this fellow countryman had taken, I came to the conclusion that it was no exaggeration, but a true bill in all particulars. On the night of our second day in Paris we went to a theater to see one of the topical revues, in which Paris is supposed to excel; and for sheer dreariness and blatant vulgarity Paris revues do, indeed, excel anything of a similar nature as done in either England or in America, which ...

— Europe Revised • Irvin S. Cobb

More quotes...