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fictile, a. and n.|ˈfɪktɪl|
[ad. L. fictil-em, f. fingĕre to fashion: see -ile.]
A. adj.
1. Capable of being moulded, suitable for making pottery. Now rare.
1675Evelyn Terra (1776) 8 The several Fictile clays.
fig.1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1872) I. i. ii. 6 Ours is a most fictile world; and man is the most fingent plastic of creatures.
2. Moulded into form by art; made of earth, clay, etc. by a potter.
1626Bacon Sylva §841 Fictile Earth is more fragile than crude Earth and dry wood than green. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. iii. 92, I was but fool'd To worship in his room a fictile deity. 1662Evelyn Chalcogr. i. 5 And why may not the Tori, Brawn, or Collops of fat be express'd by these raised Figures, and they Torosæ plump, and..en bon point, as well as Fusil and Fictile ones? 1825Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. (1843) I. 96 The Etruscans, who were famous potters, used to make fictile coffins. 1855Musgrave Ramble Normandy 281 Curiosities..fictile and fossil.
3. Of or pertaining to the manufacture of earthenware, etc.; having to do with pottery. Also (rarely) Skilled in or devoted to fictile art.
1854Thoreau Walden (1863) 281, I was pleased to find that so fictile an art was ever practised in my neighbourhood. 1864C. P. Smyth Inher. in Gt. Pyramid i. i. (1880) 5 That too graphic religion which the fictile nation on the Nile ever delighted in. 1888Arts & Crafts Catal. 46 And Fictile Craft grew with his [man's] knowledge.
B. n. A fictile vessel.
1850in Weale Dict. Terms. 1888Arts & Crafts Catal. 45 These Fictiles tell the story of his first Art-instincts.
Hence ˈfictileness, the quality or fact of being fictile.
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