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fictile
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fictile has 3 senses
- fictile(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware"
- fictile(s = adj.all) pliable - susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
- fictile(s = adj.all) moldable, plastic - capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
CIDE DICTIONARY
fictile, a. [L. fictilis. See Fiction.].
Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. [1913 Webster]
"Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth."
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"The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
fictile, adj.
1 made of earth or clay by a potter.
2 of pottery.
1 made of earth or clay by a potter.
2 of pottery.
Etymology
L fictilis f. fingere fict- fashion
ROGET THESAURUS
fictile
Form
N form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.
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