Meaning of nugacious | Babel Free

Definitions

Trivial, trifling or of little importance.

archaic

Examples

“How many are the ſpurious Authors of theſe Arts; that have uſurped to themſelves the names and titles of holy men, and of men more famous in their own way; on purpoſe to vend their nugacious fables, and preſtigious impoſtures with more eſteem?”

“’Tis theſe nugacious Diſputations, that have been the great hinderance to the more improveable parts of Learning: […]”

“Like the Monastic Orders, which were continually subdividing upon some quarrel of reform, .. for the restoration of old observances, or the introduction of new; sometimes for things as nugacious as the colour of a habit, or the shape of a cowl.”

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