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Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, or the like; topic; theme.
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A kind of song of a lively character, frequently embodying a satire on some person or event, sung to a familiar air in couplets with a refrain; a street song; a topical song.
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A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.
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The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
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A subject or topic on which a person writes or speaks; a proposition for discussion or argument; a text.
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An argument or reason.
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In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.
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Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
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An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.
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of Tope
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Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.
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Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.
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A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
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One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.
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A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.
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Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.
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Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
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Topical.
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Fig.: Worn out; as, a threadbare subject; stale topics and threadbare quotations.
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A peculiar species of poetry, for the most part devoted to moral and religious topics, and commonly satirical, -- often used by the troubadours of the Middle Ages.