fictious

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/ˈfɪkʃəs/

adjective

Fictitious.

OriginLatin *fictiōsus →
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Meanings

adjectivefictious (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteFictitious.

    Man does vvith dangerous Curioſity / Theſe unfathom'd VVonders try: / VVith fancy'd Rules and Arbitrary Lavvs / Matter and Motion he reſtrains, / And ſtudy'd Lines and fictious Circles dravvs; […]

    1688, Mat[thew] Prior, “On Exodus 3. 14. I Am that I Am. An Ode. […]”, in Poems on Several Occasions, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 4
  2. not comparableobsoleteAddicted to or characterized by fiction.

Origin

  1. Latin*fictiōsus
  2. Englishfictious

From ficti(on) + -ous, as if Latin *fictiōsus, from fictiō.

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Chicago

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