adv. [f. as prec. + -LY2.] In a trivial manner.
1. Commonly, ordinarily, familiarly; in a commonplace or trite way. Now rare or Obs.
1625. Bacon, Ess., Greatn. Kingd. (Arb.), 473. Neither is Money the Sinewes of Warre (as it is triuially said).
1647. Trapp, Comm. Matt. xi. 17. He is the best preacher, saith Luther, that delivereth himself vulgarly, plainly, trivially.
a. 1661. Holyday, Juvenal (1673), 211. He thinks it more unhappiness … to die with a divided carcase, then with a whole one:… the whole body being not usually so trivially exposed to scorn, as the head, when divided from the body.
1818. Southey, in Q. Rev., XVIII. 9. Leah and Rachel were … used almost as trivially for examples by poets as by theologians.
2. In a trifling, slight, or paltry way; in the way of trifling, frivolously.
1649. J. H., Motion to Parl. Adv. Learn., 26. Their youth so trivially spent.
1710. Steele, Tatler, No. 207, ¶ 2. Minds which are not trivially disposed.
1858. O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t., viii. (1883), 161. You speak trivially, but not unwisely.
