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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Topical \Top"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. topique LL topicus, Gr ?. See
{Topic}, n.]
1. Of or pertaining to a place limited; logical application;
as a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
2. (Rhet. & logic) Pertaining to or consisting of a topic
or topics; according to topics.
3. 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. --Sir M. Hale.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
topical
adj 1: (medicine) "a drug for topical (or local) application"; "a
topical remedy"
2: of or relating to or arranged by topics; "a detailed record
on both a chronological and a topical basis"
3: of interest at the present time; "a topical reference"; "a
topical and timely study of civil liberty"
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