factitiousadj.

Brit.

/fakˈtɪʃəs/, U.S.

/fækˈtɪʃəs/

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin factīcius , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin factīcius (in post-classical Latin also factitius) manufactured, artificial ( < fact- , past participial stem of facere to make (see fact n.) + -īcius : see -itious suffix¹) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French factice (1534; for earlier adaptation of the Latin adjective into French, see featous adj.).

1. Not genuine, intrinsic, natural, or spontaneous; inauthentic; artificially created or developed; made up for a particular occasion or purpose; arising from custom, habit, or convention.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together

positivec1385

artificial?c1425

craftlya1492

wroughta1500

preparated1569

made1580

elaborate1583

elaborate1592

elaborated1596

handmade1603

arted1606

factitiousa1624

made-up1677

fictitious1686

man-madea1718

got-up1793

gotten-up1796

canned1878

artefact1909

prefabricated1935

a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xxv. 379 None of them all by this Baronian reason, deserve any credit, for among their writings are inserted many suppositious and factitious tracts.

1654 H. Vaughan tr. J. E. Nieremberg 2 Excellent Disc. i. 35 in Flores Solitudinis If they would awake to themselves..all these factitious weights and seeming heavinesse would quickly vanish.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. ***2 The Atheists Artificiall and Factitious Justice, is Nothing but Will and Words.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iv. 420 The factitious..Nature of these Pleasures.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 174 The use of gold and silver [as money] is in a great measure factitious.

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 67 The mass of factitious expence and delay..with which the approaches to justice are clogged.

1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. xi. §4 Its acquisition was invested with a factitious value.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 106 The momentary and factitious joy which had greeted the day of William's crowning died utterly away.

1915 Freedom July 54/2 The present need for money is almost entirely factitious.

1977 R. West Celebration II. 177 He objects to stage plays, because they arouse in the audience factitious emotion of a hysterical and unprofitable sort.

1996 Observer 29 Dec. 27/1 Dreary, often factitious debates over Maastrich [sic] and a common currency.

2. Made by human beings, often in imitation of something natural; artificial; manufactured. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together > of objects normally occurring naturally

factitious1646

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 51 It becomes the chiefest ground for artificiall and factitious gemmes.

1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 39 in Ess. Effects Motion Beer, Ale, or other factitious drinks.

1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 304 The Stones of which it [sc. Stone-henge] was composed, are not factitious.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 236 The one was a natural eminence..The other was a factitious mound.

1801 J. Jones tr. T. Bugge Trav. French Republic xv. 382 His factitious black lead pencils..are not prepared from the native ore, but a composition..of iron and sulphur.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1601/2 Pancake, a factitious leather made of scraps..pressed into a flat cake for insoles, etc.

2002 W. R. Newman & L. M. Principe Alchemy tried in Fire (2005) v. 211 Recipes..for the production of factitious gems from flints and sand like those mentioned by Boyle.

†3. Of a geological feature: produced by special causes, not forming part of the original crust of the earth. Of a geological deposit or soil: secondary in origin. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > crust > not part of original

factitious1684

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 137 Those [islands] I call factitious, that are not of the same date and antiquity with the sea, but have been made..by accidental causes.

1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 7 This Bed of Sand, Mud and Dirt, is a factitious Bed.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 80 Factitious soil, formed of decayed or rotten leaves.

1808 F. Wilford in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 8 298 The factitious soil of the Gangetic provinces..has been brought down by the alluvions of rivers.

4. Medicine. Of a disorder, symptom, etc.: feigned or self-induced by a patient, esp. (in later use in Psychiatry) solely in order to obtain medical attention.

ΚΠ

1808 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 4 157 To point out the difference between this factitious disease, and the infectious ophthalmia.., some leading facts are here briefly contrasted.

1843 H. Gavin Feigned & Factitious Dis. 10 Factitious diseases, or those which are wholly produced by the patient, or with his concurrence.

1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 758 We must never forget the possibility of the affection before us being factitious.

1968 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 18 569/1 Factitious illness is the appropriate diagnosis in patients who consciously distort their medical history and produce misleading physical findings and laboratory results through self-inflicted lesions.

1977 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 6 Jan. 23 (title) Urinary temperature: a clue to early diagnosis of factitious fever.

1994 Jrnl. Internal Med. 236 685 Factitious cardiovascular symptoms have become more frequent during recent decades.

2000 Times 3 Feb. 15/2 There is, however, another group of psychiatric troubles with symptoms that can be confused with those of factitious disorders.

Compounds

factitious air n. Science (now historical) any kind of gas or vapour produced artificially or experimentally.

ΚΠ

1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 223 Experiments..of the living of Creatures by Factitious Air.

1748 N. Robinson Christian Philosopher (new ed.) iv. 61 Animals, included in a Receiver of that factitious Air, will sicken, pine, and die, in the same Manner, as if the Air Pump was wholly exhausted of pure air.

1835 F. H. Ramadge Asthma 189 Considerable expectations were at first formed of the results to be obtained from the inhalation of factitious airs; but these have, for the most part, ended in disappointment.

1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. iii. 124 It was found possible to prepare and study some twenty or more ‘factitious airs’ that were different from ordinary air in properties and density.

2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 232 In the last two decades of the eighteenth century..the factitious airs later named hydrogen and oxygen were exploded into water by the electric spark.

Derivatives

facˈtitiously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [adverb] > artificially

artificially1533

curiously1615

factitiously1773

artifactually1924

1773 A. MacBean Dict. Anc. Geogr. Portus, a small bay or part of the sea, locked or enclosed, either naturally by the land, or factitiously by an encompassing wall.

1795 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XIV. 478 There is no such Fear, as is factitiously pretended, of Popery and arbitrary Power.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxiv. 279 Our factitiously complex..notions, are all merely so many products of Comparison.

1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 59 Festivity, kept alive factitiously.

1906 W. H. Schofield Eng. Lit. to Chaucer v. 203 An immense prose romance, a conglomerate of all sorts of material factitiously joined together in the course of the thirteenth century.

1991 M. G. H. Pittock Invention of Scotl. iv. 102 The sense of a doomed nation factitiously created by the one group was only too bitterly experienced by the other.

facˈtitiousness n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > quality of being contrived

factitiousness1668

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. i. §3. 28 Factitiousness, artificial, technical, made.

1774 W. Hutchinson Excursion to Lakes 31 The pavillions..; with the parterres, and sloping plots of grass ground, modernize a scene, which condemns all factitiousness of taste.

1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 257 As the day passes on..and he is still unhired, there does appear a factitiousness in the smile.

1959 W. Wasserstrom Heiress of All Ages 117 Beaumont is killed by enemies who despise his pose, his factitiousness, his playing at love as if it were a game of chess.

1996 C. Looby Voicing Amer. iv. 242 The factitiousness of republican traditionalism in America is what its historians have ignored.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	factitious
释义	factitiousadj. Brit. /fakˈtɪʃəs/, U.S. /fækˈtɪʃəs/ Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin factīcius , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin factīcius (in post-classical Latin also factitius) manufactured, artificial ( < fact- , past participial stem of facere to make (see fact n.) + -īcius : see -itious suffix¹) + -ous suffix. Compare Middle French, French factice (1534; for earlier adaptation of the Latin adjective into French, see featous adj.). 1. Not genuine, intrinsic, natural, or spontaneous; inauthentic; artificially created or developed; made up for a particular occasion or purpose; arising from custom, habit, or convention. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together positivec1385 artificial?c1425 craftlya1492 wroughta1500 preparated1569 made1580 elaborate1583 elaborate1592 elaborated1596 handmade1603 arted1606 factitiousa1624 made-up1677 fictitious1686 man-madea1718 got-up1793 gotten-up1796 canned1878 artefact1909 prefabricated1935 a1624 R. Crakanthorpe Vigilius Dormitans (1631) xxv. 379 None of them all by this Baronian reason, deserve any credit, for among their writings are inserted many suppositious and factitious tracts. 1654 H. Vaughan tr. J. E. Nieremberg 2 Excellent Disc. i. 35 in Flores Solitudinis If they would awake to themselves..all these factitious weights and seeming heavinesse would quickly vanish. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe Pref. sig. **2 The Atheists Artificiall and Factitious Justice, is Nothing but Will and Words. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man* i. iv. 420 The factitious..Nature of these Pleasures. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 174 The use of gold and silver [as money] is in a great measure factitious. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 67 The mass of factitious expence and delay..with which the approaches to justice are clogged. 1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. i. xi. §4 Its acquisition was invested with a factitious value. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) IV. xviii. 106 The momentary and factitious joy which had greeted the day of William's crowning died utterly away. 1915 Freedom July 54/2 The present need for money is almost entirely factitious. 1977 R. West Celebration II. 177 He objects to stage plays, because they arouse in the audience factitious emotion of a hysterical and unprofitable sort. 1996 Observer 29 Dec. 27/1 Dreary, often factitious debates over Maastrich [sic] and a common currency. 2. Made by human beings, often in imitation of something natural; artificial; manufactured. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > contrived, artificial, or put together > of objects normally occurring naturally factitious1646 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 51 It becomes the chiefest ground for artificiall and factitious gemmes. View more context for this quotation 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 39 in Ess. Effects Motion Beer, Ale, or other factitious drinks. 1748 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 4) I. 304 The Stones of which it [sc. Stone-henge] was composed, are not factitious. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 236 The one was a natural eminence..The other was a factitious mound. 1801 J. Jones tr. T. Bugge Trav. French Republic xv. 382 His factitious black lead pencils..are not prepared from the native ore, but a composition..of iron and sulphur. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1601/2 Pancake, a factitious leather made of scraps..pressed into a flat cake for insoles, etc. 2002 W. R. Newman & L. M. Principe Alchemy tried in Fire (2005) v. 211 Recipes..for the production of factitious gems from flints and sand like those mentioned by Boyle. †3. Of a geological feature: produced by special causes, not forming part of the original crust of the earth. Of a geological deposit or soil: secondary in origin. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > crust > not part of original factitious1684 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth i. 137 Those [islands] I call factitious, that are not of the same date and antiquity with the sea, but have been made..by accidental causes. 1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 7 This Bed of Sand, Mud and Dirt, is a factitious Bed. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 80 Factitious soil, formed of decayed or rotten leaves. 1808 F. Wilford in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 8 298 The factitious soil of the Gangetic provinces..has been brought down by the alluvions of rivers. 4. Medicine. Of a disorder, symptom, etc.: feigned or self-induced by a patient, esp. (in later use in Psychiatry) solely in order to obtain medical attention. ΚΠ 1808 Edinb. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 4 157 To point out the difference between this factitious disease, and the infectious ophthalmia.., some leading facts are here briefly contrasted. 1843 H. Gavin Feigned & Factitious Dis. 10 Factitious diseases, or those which are wholly produced by the patient, or with his concurrence. 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 758 We must never forget the possibility of the affection before us being factitious. 1968 Arch. Gen. Psychiatry 18 569/1 Factitious illness is the appropriate diagnosis in patients who consciously distort their medical history and produce misleading physical findings and laboratory results through self-inflicted lesions. 1977 New Eng. Jrnl. Med. 6 Jan. 23 (title) Urinary temperature: a clue to early diagnosis of factitious fever. 1994 Jrnl. Internal Med. 236 685 Factitious cardiovascular symptoms have become more frequent during recent decades. 2000 Times 3 Feb. 15/2 There is, however, another group of psychiatric troubles with symptoms that can be confused with those of factitious disorders. Compounds factitious air n. Science (now historical) any kind of gas or vapour produced artificially or experimentally. ΚΠ 1667 T. Sprat Hist. Royal-Soc. 223 Experiments..of the living of Creatures by Factitious Air. 1748 N. Robinson Christian Philosopher (new ed.) iv. 61 Animals, included in a Receiver of that factitious Air, will sicken, pine, and die, in the same Manner, as if the Air Pump was wholly exhausted of pure air. 1835 F. H. Ramadge Asthma 189 Considerable expectations were at first formed of the results to be obtained from the inhalation of factitious airs; but these have, for the most part, ended in disappointment. 1992 W. H. Brock Fontana Hist. Chem. iii. 124 It was found possible to prepare and study some twenty or more ‘factitious airs’ that were different from ordinary air in properties and density. 2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 232 In the last two decades of the eighteenth century..the factitious airs later named hydrogen and oxygen were exploded into water by the electric spark. Derivatives facˈtitiously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adverb] > artificially artificially1533 curiously1615 factitiously1773 artifactually1924 1773 A. MacBean Dict. Anc. Geogr. Portus, a small bay or part of the sea, locked or enclosed, either naturally by the land, or factitiously by an encompassing wall. 1795 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XIV. 478 There is no such Fear, as is factitiously pretended, of Popery and arbitrary Power. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxxiv. 279 Our factitiously complex..notions, are all merely so many products of Comparison. 1858 N. Hawthorne Fr. & Ital. Jrnls. II. 59 Festivity, kept alive factitiously. 1906 W. H. Schofield Eng. Lit. to Chaucer v. 203 An immense prose romance, a conglomerate of all sorts of material factitiously joined together in the course of the thirteenth century. 1991 M. G. H. Pittock Invention of Scotl. iv. 102 The sense of a doomed nation factitiously created by the one group was only too bitterly experienced by the other. facˈtitiousness n. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > contriving or devising > quality of being contrived factitiousness1668 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. i. §3. 28 Factitiousness, artificial, technical, made. 1774 W. Hutchinson Excursion to Lakes 31 The pavillions..; with the parterres, and sloping plots of grass ground, modernize a scene, which condemns all factitiousness of taste. 1883 T. Hardy in Longman's Mag. July 257 As the day passes on..and he is still unhired, there does appear a factitiousness in the smile. 1959 W. Wasserstrom Heiress of All Ages 117 Beaumont is killed by enemies who despise his pose, his factitiousness, his playing at love as if it were a game of chess. 1996 C. Looby Voicing Amer. iv. 242 The factitiousness of republican traditionalism in America is what its historians have ignored. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1624
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