Meaning of FICTILE
| Pronunciation: | | 'fiktl
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- [adj] capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"
- [adj] susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"
- [adj] of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware"
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| | Synonyms: | | elastic, moldable, plastic, pliable, susceptible |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Fic"tile\, 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.
Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth.
--Bacon.
The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. --C.
Wordsworth.
{Fictile ware}, ware made of any material which is molded or
shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. --
{Fic"tile*ness}, n. -- {Fic*til"i*ty}, n.
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