trivialize (trivia liz)

t.; pret. and pp. triv ialized, ppr. trivializing. [ Southey. We are now at the Sonnets [of Milton]. I know your dislike of this composition. Landor. In English, not in Italian; but Milton has ennobled it in our tongue, and has trivialized it in that. Landor , Imag. Conv., Southey and Landor, ii. trivially (triv'i-al-i), adv . In a trivial manner. Neither is money the sinews of war (as it is trivially said. Bacon , True Greatne of Kingdoms, etc. (ed. 1887). trivialne (triv'i-al-nes), n. The state or quality of being trivial; triviality. We always seem to be living just on the brink of a pure and lofty intercourse, which would make the ills and triv ialne of life ridiculous. Thoreau, Letters, p. 13.