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fictitious, a.|fɪkˈtɪʃəs|
[f. L. fictīci-us (f. fingĕre to fashion, feign) + -ous: see -itious.]
1.
†a. Artificial as opposed to natural (obs.).
b. Counterfeit, ‘imitation’, sham; not genuine.
1615Crooke Body of Man 84 Able to distinguish betweene natural and fictitious precious Stones. 1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. 29 Chymists distinguish Vitriol into Natural and Fictitious, or made by Art. 1725Pope Odyss. xviii. 356 Three vases heap'd with copious fires display O'er all the palace a fictitious day. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) VIII. xix. 295 By shedding fictitious tears. 1783Watson Philip III, i. (1839) 19 The fictitious attack on the fort. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xxxi, The fictitious old woman ushered in Catharine. 1840Macaulay Clive 45 Two treaties were drawn up, one on white paper, the other on red, the former real, the latter fictitious.
2. Arbitrarily devised; not founded on rational grounds.
1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. i. ii. 76 Those things which by abuse..are passed into a fictitious and usurped authority. 1662H. Stubbe Ind. Nectar Pref. 4 The..unpractised (and in many parts false, and fictitious) Doctrine. 1736Butler Anal. i. iii. 96 The notion..of a moral scheme of government is not fictitious but natural. 1868Rogers Pol. Econ. iii. (1876) 5 Nations, who have no money..have been constrained to invent a fictitious measure in order to express values.
3. Of a name: Feigned, assumed or invented, not real. Of a character, etc.: Feigned, deceptively assumed, simulated.
a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 92 Philip Melancthon thinks, they [Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar] were not true, but fictitious Names. 1735Pope Lett. 7 Mar. 1731, I may..make use of Real Names and not of Fictitious Ones. 1783Watson Philip III (1793) I. iv. 406 Men who act a fictitious part. 1820Scott Ivanhoe xxiii, Her haughtiness..was..a fictitious character, induced over that which was natural to her. 1870Dickens E. Drood iii, A fictitious name must be bestowed upon the old Cathedral town.
4. Feigned to exist; existing only in imagination; imaginary, unreal.
1621–51Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iv. i. ii. 644 St. Christopher, and a company of fictitious Saints. 1634Habington Castara (Arb.), Nobler comfort..then vice Ere found in her fictitious Paradise. 1701Rowe Amb. Step-Moth. iii. ii, He laughs At the fictitious Justice of the Gods. 1827Hare Guesses (1859) 273 The facts in Poetry, being avowedly fictitious, are not false. 1865Livingstone Zambesi vi. 148 The Portuguese would, by fictitious claims, reap all the benefit. 1877R. Giffen Stock Exch. Secur. 64 Such fictitious securities..as the loans of Honduras.
5. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of fiction.
1773Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind (1774) II. 144 Those fictitious stories that so enchant the mind. 1838Thirlwall Greece II. xvi. 358 Marvels which would be intolerable in a fictitious narrative. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. (1853) 107 Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life of the time.
6. Constituted or regarded as such by a (legal or conventional) fiction.
1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 261 Being under a sense of transgression for a wholly fictitious offence. 1883Maine Early Law & Custom iv. 100 The growing popularity of Adoption, as a method of obtaining a fictitious son. |
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