fictious
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- (obsolete) Fictitious.
- 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:
- 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; […]
- (obsolete) Addicted to or characterized by fiction.
References
edit- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “fictious”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.