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fictive, a.|ˈfɪktɪv|
[a. F. fictif, -ive, f. L. type *fictīv-us. f. fingĕre to fashion, feign.]
1. In active sense.
†a. Given to feigning. Obs.
c1491Chast. Goddes Chyld. 28 In goddes sighte they ben very fyctifs feyners.
b. Adapted to or concerned with the creation of fiction; imaginatively creative.
1865Macm. Mag. Dec. 156 The personages whom by his fictive art he had called into being. 1889J. M. Robertson Ess. Crit. Method 122 Having a..great fictive faculty.
c. Adapted to fashion or form; moulding. rare.
1875L. Morris Food of Song v, Too formless to inspire The fictive hand.
2. In passive sense.
a. Originating in fiction, created by the imagination, fictitious. Of a name: Assumed.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. vi. 93 Time..to those things whose grounds were verie true, Though naked yet and bare..gave fictive ornament. 1837Fraser's Mag. XV. 636 It must be some list of a party..or else the names are fictive. 1860Ld. Lytton Lucile ii. iv. i. 60 What was there in such fictive woes To thrill a whole theatre?
b. Of a counterfeit or fictitious character, not real, feigned, sham.
1855Tennyson Brook 93 Dabbling in the fount of fictive tears. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer 117 The fictive advice of Agamemnon to return home is taken in good earnest. |