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▪ I. † ˈfitten, n. Obs.
Forms: 5 fyton, 6 fytten, fitton(e, 6–7 fitten.
[Of unknown origin.
The suggestion that it is a corruption of fiction is inadmissible. The form coincides curiously with the corruption of L. python found in various Teut. langs.: ON. fítón, MDu. fytoen necromancy, sorcery.]
An untruth, a lie, an invention.
c1440Promp. Parv. 163/1 Fyton, or lesynge, mendacium. 1530Palsgr. 220/2 Fytten, mensonge, menterie. a1577Gascoigne Fruites of Warre 24 Wks. (1587) 118 Let not dame flattery in your bosome creepe, To tel a fittone in your Landlords eares. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. i. iv, He doth feed you with fittons, figments and leasins. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 69 Others of them may wel be deemed Fittons of his own framing, as [etc.]. 1825J. Britton Beauties Wiltsh. III. 373 Fitten, a feint, a pretence.
▪ II. ˈfitten, a. Obs. exc. in U.S. dial.
[as if a pa. pple. (strong formation) f. fit v.]
Suitable, fit.
1642H. More Song of Soul iv. xxx, Sensation The soul some fitten hint doth promptly lend To find out plantall life. 1873‘Mark Twain’ & Warner Gilded Age 32 It was fitten to make a body's heart break. 1876‘Mark Twain’ Tom Sawyer 120, I reckon I ain't dressed fitten for a pirate. 1932W. Faulkner Light in August vi. 98 He would see fitten to reveal it. 1938M. K. Rawlings Yearling ii. 19 The scrub's a fitten place for the game to raise, and all the wild things.
▪ III. † ˈfitten, v. Obs.
Also 6 fiton.
[f. fitten n.]
intr. To utter falsehoods, fib, tell lies.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. 15/2 Least the apostle should haue beene thought to haue fitoned. c1580Lodge Answ. to Gosson Wks. 1879 III. 30 Yf Boetyus fitten not. 1624H. Mason Art of Lying v. 104 How can I tell that they doe not fitten and deuise all that vpon their fingers ende? |