v. [f. TRIVIAL + -IZE; cf. mod.F. trivialiser (Littré).] trans. To make trivial; to render commonplace or trifling.
1846. Landor, Imag. Conv., Southey & Landor, Wks. II. 168/1. Milton has ennobled it [the sonnet] in our tongue, and has trivialised it in that [Italian].
1882. Topeka Sunday Capital, 24 Dec., 4/3. The results of that event [the Advent] are more miraculous than the event itself, surpassing all other wonders and trivializing all other facts to the merest commonplace.
1895. W. Platt, Women, 147. Trivialising marriage into the enjoyment of a mere instinct.
