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† ˈfictious, a. Obs.
[as if ad. L. *fictiōsus, f. fictiōnem: see fiction n.]
1. = fictitious.
1644Quarles Sheph. Orac. i, My report..Was counted fictious. 1688Prior Exod. iii. 14. vi, And study'd Lines and fictious Circles draws. 1710Brit. Apollo III. 3/2 Thy Fictious Performance would ne're be so dull. 1770Gentl. Mag. XL. 315 His R― H― had assumed the fictious name of Morgan. 1804J. Lackington Confessions Pref. 7, I have called my old acquaintances by fictious names. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. 122 The poet's fictious tales. Ibid. II. 361 A mighty army fills the plain with fictious war. 1886C. M. Yonge Chantry House xiv. 127 Chapman never ‘gave heed to them fictious tales’, he said.
2. Addicted to or characterized by fiction.
1641T. Hayne Luther 113 Go, fictious Greece, go tell Alcides, then, His club is nothing to great Luthers pen. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 26 As long as thy Fancy..adhers to thy Fictious Books. 1813G. Colman Br. Grins, Vagaries Vind. xxxiv, From fictious verse could stubborn facts ensue. |