Meanings
adjectivetritical (comparative more tritical, superlative most tritical)
comparative more tritical · superlative most tritical
- obsoletetrite
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.
1782, Thomas Warton, The History and Antiquities of Kiddington
Origin
Formed from trite, in imitation of critical.
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