TOPICS
Noun
topics
plural of topic
Anagrams
• copist, cops it, optics, picots, postic
Source: Wiktionary
TOPIC
Top"ic, n. Etym: [F. topiques, pl., L. topica the title of a work of
Aristotle, Gr. topika`, fr. topiko`s of or for place, concerning
to`poi, or commonplaces, fr. to`pos a place.]
(a) 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.
(b) pl.
Definition: A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or
commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.
These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to
a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to
consult. Blair.
In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct topic, but a
transcendent that runs through all topics. Jer. Taylor.
2. An argument or reason. [Obs.]
Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom
no topics can work upon. Bp. Wilkins.
3. 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.
4. (Med.)
Definition: An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a
blister, etc. [Obsoles.] Wiseman.
Top"ic, a.
Definition: Topical. Drayton. Holland.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition