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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."

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Etymology of 'Topical'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Topical" Quotes from Famous Books

... down, cheerful at the prospect of getting into port, and singing a new topical ditty that had come up from the Santa Fe by way of La Junta. Nobody knows who makes these songs; they seem to follow events automatically. Mrs. Kronborg made Giddy sing the whole twelve verses of this one, and ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... interestedly perusing the stories. Just so, the all-photoplay program in a picture theatre, at the time of which we speak, was one made up entirely of either "dramatic"[1] or "comedy" subjects. Films classified as "scenic," "educational," "vocational," "industrial," "sporting," and "topical," were not included ...

— Writing the Photoplay • J. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds

... crawled through the canvas at the back of the stage they cheered us to the echo. The platform was about the size of a dining table, which rather cramped our style. We always began our shows with a topical song, each taking a verse in turn, and then all singing the chorus. Towards the end of our first song the Lieutenant and the others arrived. The guns boomed so loudly at times the words were quite drowned. The Programme consisted of Recitations, Songs at the Piano, ...

— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... topical, not a narrative, history. We have tried to set forth the important aspects, problems, and movements of each period, bringing in the narrative ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... direction. The pictures on the wall included an oleograph portrait of the late King Edward in the costume of an Admiral, a large engraving of Mr. Landseer's inevitable stag, and several coloured and illuminated texts. One of the latter struck me as being topical if a little ...

— A Rogue by Compulsion • Victor Bridges

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