† fictadj.n.
Obsolete.
A. adj.
1. = feigned adj. 2. In quot. 1677 absol. or quasi-adv.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adjective] > only in imagination or unreal
imaginary?1510
imaginative1517
rational1530
fantastical1531
fantasied1561
airy1565
fancied1568
legendary1570
dreamed1597
fabled1606
ideal1611
fictive1612
affectual1614
insubstantiala1616
imaginatorya1618
supposititious1620
fictitious1621
utopian1624
utopic1624
notional1629
affective1633
fictiousa1644
notionary1646
figmental1655
suppositious1655
fict1677
visionary1725
metaphysical1728
unrealized1767
fancy1801
nice-spun1801
subjective1815
aerial1829
transcendental1835
cardboardy1863
mythical1870
cardboard1879
fictionary1882
figmentary1887
alternative1939
alternate1944
fantasized1964
ideate1966
fanciful-
fantastic-
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adverb]
fantastically1547
forgedly1578
fabulously1593
fictitiously1646
commentitiously1652
fict1677
1677 T. Harvey tr. J. Owen Epigrams i. xxxi Poets of things past write false and fict.
2. Music. = feigned adj. 5a. Only in fict voice (Latin vox ficta), a note altered by an accidental flat according to the rules of Musica ficta, i.e. music in which the accidentals were supplied, instead of being left to the singer's discretion. See Grove Dict. Music II. 413/1.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [noun] > accidental altering > a note accidentally altered
fict voice1609
chromatics1708
chromaticism1879
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 87 The placing of Rests in a Counterpoint is..tollerated..To auoide Fict Voices, and the forbidden Interuals.
B. n.
A note occurring in certain Hexachords when altered as above. Also scale of ficts.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > system of sounds or intervals > [noun] > hexachord > notes of hexachords > altered
fict1609
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 25 The Scale of ficts or Synemenon and how the Mutations are made.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
† fictv.
Music. Obsolete.
intransitive. To undergo the alterations required by the rules of Musica ficta: see fict adj. and n.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [verb (intransitive)] > be altered by accidentals
fict1609
1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 25 Musicke may Fict in any Voyce and Key, for Consonance sake.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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