Hypertext Webster Gateway: "topical"
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) 1.7 (wn)
topical
adj 1: (medicine) pertaining to the surface of a body part; "a drug
for topical (or local) application"; "a topical
anesthesia"
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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