单词 | factitiously |
释义 | > as lemmasfacˈtitiously 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. < as lemmas |
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