rare. [See -IST.]
1. A student of ‘trivials’: see TRIVIAL B. 2.
1716. M. Davies, Athen. Brit., III. 3. Fitter for Veterans and Criticks in Closets and Libraries, than for Tyronists and Trivialists in Schools.
2. One who pursues or deals in trivialities.
1829. Carlyle, Misc. (1840), II. 173. Voltaire … was, therefore, intrinsically no Philosopher, but a highly accomplished Trivialist.
1878. P. Lacroix, Sci. & Lit. in Mid. Ages, 542. Most of the preachers, who affected a sort of rough and uncouth eloquence appealing to popular intelligence, belonged to the trivialist school which Gabriele Barletta had created at Naples.
