truish (troish)

[ They perchance light upon something that seems truish and newish. Bp . Gauden , Tears of the Church, p. 198. truism (trö'izm), n. [ Conclusions which in one sense shall be true and in another false, at once seeming Paradoxes and manifest truisms . Berkeley, Minute Philosopher, vii. =Syn. Aphorism , Axiom , Maxim , etc. See aphorism . truism a tic (trö-iz-mat'ik), a. [ truism + -at -ic2.] Of or pertaining to truisms; consisting of truisms. [Rare.]