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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1613-1614
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Triviale, adj. [Late ME and e.m.E. trivialle (1432-50), F. trivial, L. triviālis.] = Triffill adj. — a1614 W. Cowper Dikaiologie (1614) 178 (Jam., s.v. Cuttie n.).
Your triuiale arguments … are like the cuties of bone wherewith the children shoote in the streetes, that may well make a little fize with powder, but are not able to carrie any bullet
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