What does "topic" mean?
Topic: An argument or reason. [Obs.] Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.(Med.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.
- 4.Topical. Drayton. Holland.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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