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tritical, a.|ˈtrɪtɪkəl|
[f. trite a., with play on critical.]
Of a trite or commonplace character.
1709Swift (title) A Tritical Essay upon the faculties of the mind. 1762[see tritically]. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 285 To sermonise with a tedious homily or a tritical declamation. 1869Contemp. Rev. X. 125 To have every book of the Bible dealt with..with the same tendency to ‘tritical’ reflections.
Hence tritiˈcality, ˈtritically adv., ˈtriticalness; so ˈtriticism (after criticism; cf. also witticism).
1835Carlyle in Corr. Carlyle & Emerson 13 May (1883) I. 71 Our Ex-Chancellor has been promulgating *triticalities..against the Aristocracy.
1762Sterne Tr. Shandy VI. xi, 'Tis all tritical, and most *tritically put together.
c1714Pope, etc. Mem. M. Scriblerus vii, A *Triticalness or Mediocrity in the Thought.
1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xii, Weary, flat, and stale *triticism. |