tritical

English

Etymology

Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪtɪkəl/

Adjective

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.

Related terms

• tritically
• triticality
• triticalness

References

• “tritical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.