a. [f. TRUISM: see -ISTIC.] Having the character of a truism; trivially self-evident. (In quot. 1885, Dealing in or uttering truisms.)
1844. F. D. Maurice, in W. Ward, W. G. Ward & Oxford Movem. (1889), 321. Merely truistic statements.
1885. Pall Mall G., 30 May, 2/1. It is the fashion nowadays to be truistic.
1902. Athenæum, 11 Jan., 52/3. To a trained psychologist this statement looks truistic and commonplace.
So Truistical a., in same sense.
1858. Brit. Q. Rev., LVI. 444. While some are true, not to say truistical, others are as utterly false.
1906. Hibbert Jrnl., July, 788. Quite obvious … in fact, almost suspiciously truistical.
