TOP'IC, n. [Gr. place; L. topicus, topica.] 1. Any subject of discourse or argument. The Scriptures furnish an unlimited number of topics for the preacher,and topics infinitely interesting.2. In rhetoric, a probable argument drawn from the several circumstances and places of a fact. Aristotle wrote a book of topics. Cicero defines topics to be the art of finding arguments.3. Principle of persuasion. Contumacious persons whom no topics can work upon.4. In medicine, an external remedy; a remedy to be applied outwardly to a particular part of the body, as a plaster, a poultice, a blister and the like.TOP'IC
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