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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. X).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1691
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Topical, adj. [e.m.E. topicall (1588), f. as Topic(k n.] Local. — 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 332.
Every countrey … having their topical spirit's or power's 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 450.
Topical-spirits that haunt one place and not another
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"Topical adj.". Dictionary of the Scots Language. 2004. Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd. Accessed 15 Dec 2025 <http://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/dost/topical>
