fictionn.

Brit.

/ˈfɪkʃn/, U.S.

/ˈfɪkʃən/

Forms: Middle English ficcion, Middle English–1500s fyccion, fycyon, fytion(e), 1500s fixione, 1600s fixion, Middle English– fiction.

Etymology: < French fiction (= Provençal fiction , ficxio , Spanish ficcion ), < Latin fictiōn-em , noun of action < fingĕre to fashion or form: see feign n.

†1.

a. The action of fashioning or imitating. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > fashioning, shaping, or forming

shapinga1350

forming1401

formationc1450

fashion1463

plasmation?a1475

framing1551

frame1558

fashioning1574

plasmating1585

fiction1607

effection1623

formature1659

efficiency1665

formativeness1849

styling1928

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 534 In some partes of Germany..it [sc. the shrew] is called..Zissmuss, from the fiction of his voice.

1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules v. 37 The..Art of Painting..surpassing, by so many Degrees..all other human Fiction or imitative Art.

b. Arbitrary invention.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of > arbitrarily

fiction1615

1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 83 The king hauing made positiue lawes..disdaines that a Groome shold..annull those, to..aduance other of his owne fiction.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 225 We have never dreamt that parliaments had any right..to force a currency of their own fiction in the place of that which is real.

c. concrete. That which is fashioned or framed; a device, a fabric.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > fashioning, shaping, or forming > that which is formed

shaping1340

fiction1579

figment1592

formation1646

1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 32 The other syttes drawing Mathematicall fictions.

1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. v. 99 Thunder and Lightning..they haue in..their imaginarie fiction conioined.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 416 Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom.

†2. Feigning, counterfeiting; deceit, dissimulation, pretence. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun]

foxingc1220

feignc1320

faintise1340

simulation1340

dissimulingc1374

likenessc1384

dissimulationc1386

coverture1393

dissemblationc1425

assimulationa1450

dissemblec1480

fiction1483

dissemblinga1500

irony1502

dissimulance1508

dissembly?c1550

blindation1588

counterfeisance1590

misseeming1590

supposing1596

dissemblance1602

guise1662

dissimulating1794

make-believe1794

representation1805

sham-Abra(ha)m1828

make-belief1837

pretence1862

make-believing1867

postiche1876

kid-stakes1916

smoke and mirrors1980

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A iv b He that sheweth him a frende by fyction and faynyng for to dysceyue him.

1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iii. sig. d.iiii W^tout hauynge ficcion in his worde.

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ti I say without fiction.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I4 A man of the purest goodnesse without all fiction or affectation.

1610 Bible (Douay) II. Wisd. vii. 13 Which I lerned without fiction.

a. The action of ‘feigning’ or inventing imaginary incidents, existences, states of things, etc., whether for the purpose of deception or otherwise.The reproachful sense [= ‘fabrication’] is merely contextual.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of

conceit1576

creation1604

fiction1605

commentation1652

contrivance1699

conception1771

coining1858

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun]

invention1526

forgery1582

fiction1605

romance1668

fabrication1790

whole cloth1823

concoction1831

fictionizing1938

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2^v Hee that will easily beleeue..will as easily augment rumors..so great an affinitie hath fiction and beleefe.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 151 To be pleased in the fiction of that, which would please a man if it were reall, is a Passion..adhærent to the Nature..of man.

1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 7 Truth is the most powerful thing in the World, since even Fiction it self must be govern'd by it.

1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 39 The extreme Mischiefe which Fiction and Fraud occasion in the World.

1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 99 The scene may appear to us so memorable, as to have afforded temptation for fiction.

b. That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > something invented

fiction1495

fablea1593

commentation1652

myth1849

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aij/2 Deuowte doctours of Theologye..wysely..vse natural philosophye & morall and poetes in ther ficcions & feyned Informacyons.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure Proem v Whose [i.e. Lydgate's] fatall fictions are yet permanent, Grounded on reason.

1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Oi The waues sollycited (a Poeticall fiction) by the wife of Iupiter.

1612 T. Wilson Christian Dict. 375 The popish Priest-hood is an immaginary and blasphemous fixion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 126 If this were plaid vpon a stage now, I could condemne it as an improbable fiction .

1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 251 Fiction is always more feeble than truth.

1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 209 Few real men have left such distinct characters as these fictions.

1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. viii. iii. 536 Until fact..has become clearly distinguished from fiction.

1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 34 The fictions of the Virgilian age establish no presumption adverse to it.

c. A statement or narrative proceeding from mere invention; such statements collectively.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story

fablec1300

fantasy1362

feigning1388

invention?a1513

story?1531

finctionc1540

figment1577

fingure1593

fiction1599

knavigation1613

flam1632

gun1720

novel1764

fabrication1790

fudge1797

gag1805

myth1840

make-up1844

concoction1885

fictionalization1954

1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 32 Because yo^u shall not thinke this anye fixione of my owne.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 What a fiction or fable was deuised.

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 221 Let us cast away all fiction.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 318 Though this was all a Fiction of his own, yet it had its desired Effect.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvi. 326 Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 581 The messengers..might..have related mere fictions without incurring the penalties of perjury.

1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 17 He had been playing off a fiction upon me.

a. The species of literature which is concerned with the narration of imaginary events and the portraiture of imaginary characters; fictitious composition. Now usually, prose novels and stories collectively; the composition of works of this class.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun]

poetrya1387

fiction1599

prose fiction1808

science fiction1851

1599 R. Linche tr. V. Cartari (title) The fountaine of ancient fiction.

a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vi. 142 Dramatic fiction copies real life.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. iv. vi. 226 Old people like history better than fiction.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 65 The Arabs..enjoy a remarkable advantage over us in the composition of works of fiction.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 10 The existing school of French fiction.

b. A work of fiction; a novel or tale. Now chiefly in depreciatory use; cf. 3b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > a work of fiction

fablea1340

fiction1875

fictionalization1954

1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 258 They read nothing but fictions and levities.

1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 9 Apr. (1968) I. 394 By contract he's supposed to publish my next three fictions.

5. A supposition known to be at variance with fact, but conventionally accepted for some reason of practical convenience, conformity with traditional usage, decorum, or the like.

a. in Law. Chiefly applied to those feigned statements of fact which the practice of the courts authorized to be alleged by a plaintiff in order to bring his case within the scope of the law or the jurisdiction of the court, and which the defendant was not allowed to disprove. Fictions of this kind are now almost obsolete in England, the objects which they were designed to serve having been for the most part attained by the amendment of the law.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > assumption feigned for argument

fiction1590

legal fiction1861

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 165 It were against all right..that he should be iudged the father of that childe, by fiction of lawe.

1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 223 That ancestor, from whom it..is supposed by fiction of law to have originally descended.

1775 Ld. Mansfield in Mostyn v. Fabrigas, Smith's Leading Cases (ed. 9) I. 652 It is a certain rule, that a fiction of law shall never be contradicted so as to defeat the end for which it was invented, but for every other purpose it may be contradicted.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 26 It became a fundamental maxim, or rather fiction of our law that all real property was originally granted by the king.

1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xl. 312 The gold leaf has its representative in ‘legal fiction’.

1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ii. 26 I..employ the expression ‘Legal Fiction’ to signify any assumption which conceals, or affects to conceal, the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration.

1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxii. 17 The same spirit of legal fiction..shows itself..in the way in which the facts of the great confiscation are dealt with.

b. gen. (chiefly transferred).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > false

idolum1640

idolism1671

idol1678

fiction1828

pseudo-idea1863

pseudo-concept1866

1828 Ld. Grenville Sinking Fund 11 To reduce debt by borrowing..is a manifest fiction in finance.

1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vii. 116 By a like pleasant fiction his single chamber was always mentioned in the plural number.

1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism i. 2 The elements of algebra..are as full of fictions as English law.

Compounds

fiction-character n.

ΚΠ

1909 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 3/4 A second helping of a fiction character..cannot quite be like the first.

1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland ii. 28 The originals of the fiction-characters are generally well-known.

fiction-mint n.

ΚΠ

1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing viii. 84 (note) Those fiction~mints.

fiction-monger n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > writer or creator of fiction

fabular1565

story-dresser1592

fabler1614

figmentor1638

fiction-monger1835

fictioneer1923

fictioner1924

1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. ii. 31 If any one, hereafter, should tell your story, he will be accounted a fiction-monger.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. viii. 111 Trials have become lately quite hackneyed subjects, stock properties for the fiction-mongers.

1891 J. Winsor Columbus vi. 112 The credulous fiction-mongers who hang about the skirts of the historic field.

1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Oct. 3/1 He is no mere fiction-monger.

fiction-writer n.

ΚΠ

1859 Sat. Rev. 7 43/1 The rest are the regular property of the fiction-writer.

fiction-writing n.

ΚΠ

1856 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 20 July (1998) 62 I am anxious to begin my fiction writing.

1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. ix/1 Painting, play and fiction-writing.

Derivatives

ˈfiction v. transitive and intransitive. To feign; to fictionize; to admit of being fictionized. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (intransitive)]

feignc1384

fictionize1934

fiction1961

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction

to make upc1650

fictionize1831

fictionalize1925

fiction1961

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > tell or write fiction [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being fictionalized

fiction1961

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > relate or represent in fiction [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction

fictionize1831

fictionalize1925

fiction1961

1961 Amer. Speech 36 138 You can see for your self it doesn't fiction.

1966 Punch 12 Jan. 64/2 Yes, yes, yes, but why fiction it? Particularly because the fiction is weak.

ˈfictioned adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]

fainta1340

counterfeit1393

pretense1395

feinta1400

feigned1413

disguisyc1430

colourable1433

pretending1434

simulate1435

dissimuled1475

simulative1490

coloureda1500

dissimulate?a1500

simuled1526

colorate1528

dissembled1539

mock1548

devised1552

pretended?1553

artificial1564

supposed1566

counterfeited1569

supposing?1574

affecteda1586

pretensive1607

false1609

supposite1611

simulara1616

simulatory1618

simulated1622

put-ona1625

ironic1631

ironical1646

devisable1659

pretensional1659

pretenced1660

pretensory1663

vizarded1663

shammed?c1677

sham1681

faux1684

fictitious1739

ostensible1762

made-up1773

mala fide1808

assumed1813

semblative1814

fictioned1820

pretextual1837

pseudo1854

fictive1855

schlenter1881

faked1890

phoney1893

phantom1897

1820 W. M. Praed Surly Hall 238 His fictioned flame.

1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xiii. 110 The mistress of the house was dimly fictioned as being the only person who had ever read them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	fiction
释义	fictionn. Brit. /ˈfɪkʃn/, U.S. /ˈfɪkʃən/ Forms: Middle English ficcion, Middle English–1500s fyccion, fycyon, fytion(e), 1500s fixione, 1600s fixion, Middle English– fiction. Etymology: < French fiction (= Provençal fiction , ficxio , Spanish ficcion ), < Latin fictiōn-em , noun of action < fingĕre to fashion or form: see feign n. †1. a. The action of fashioning or imitating. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > fashioning, shaping, or forming shapinga1350 forming1401 formationc1450 fashion1463 plasmation?a1475 framing1551 frame1558 fashioning1574 plasmating1585 fiction1607 effection1623 formature1659 efficiency1665 formativeness1849 styling1928 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 534 In some partes of Germany..it [sc. the shrew] is called..Zissmuss, from the fiction of his voice. 1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules v. 37 The..Art of Painting..surpassing, by so many Degrees..all other human Fiction or imitative Art. b. Arbitrary invention. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of > arbitrarily fiction1615 1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 83 The king hauing made positiue lawes..disdaines that a Groome shold..annull those, to..aduance other of his owne fiction. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 225 We have never dreamt that parliaments had any right..to force a currency of their own fiction in the place of that which is real. View more context for this quotation c. concrete. That which is fashioned or framed; a device, a fabric. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [noun] > fashioning, shaping, or forming > that which is formed shaping1340 fiction1579 figment1592 formation1646 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 32 The other syttes drawing Mathematicall fictions. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. v. 99 Thunder and Lightning..they haue in..their imaginarie fiction conioined. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 416 Renounce the odours of the open field For the unscented fictions of the loom. †2. Feigning, counterfeiting; deceit, dissimulation, pretence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] foxingc1220 feignc1320 faintise1340 simulation1340 dissimulingc1374 likenessc1384 dissimulationc1386 coverture1393 dissemblationc1425 assimulationa1450 dissemblec1480 fiction1483 dissemblinga1500 irony1502 dissimulance1508 dissembly?c1550 blindation1588 counterfeisance1590 misseeming1590 supposing1596 dissemblance1602 guise1662 dissimulating1794 make-believe1794 representation1805 sham-Abra(ha)m1828 make-belief1837 pretence1862 make-believing1867 postiche1876 kid-stakes1916 smoke and mirrors1980 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton A iv b He that sheweth him a frende by fyction and faynyng for to dysceyue him. 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iii. sig. d.iiii W^tout hauynge ficcion in his worde. ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ti I say without fiction. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. I4 A man of the purest goodnesse without all fiction or affectation. View more context for this quotation 1610 Bible (Douay) II. Wisd. vii. 13 Which I lerned without fiction. 3. a. The action of ‘feigning’ or inventing imaginary incidents, existences, states of things, etc., whether for the purpose of deception or otherwise.The reproachful sense [= ‘fabrication’] is merely contextual. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [noun] > operation of conceit1576 creation1604 fiction1605 commentation1652 contrivance1699 conception1771 coining1858 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] invention1526 forgery1582 fiction1605 romance1668 fabrication1790 whole cloth1823 concoction1831 fictionizing1938 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. F2^v Hee that will easily beleeue..will as easily augment rumors..so great an affinitie hath fiction and beleefe. View more context for this quotation 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 151 To be pleased in the fiction of that, which would please a man if it were reall, is a Passion..adhærent to the Nature..of man. 1708 Ld. Shaftesbury Let. conc. Enthusiasm 7 Truth is the most powerful thing in the World, since even Fiction it self must be govern'd by it. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man ii. i. 39 The extreme Mischiefe which Fiction and Fraud occasion in the World. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. 99 The scene may appear to us so memorable, as to have afforded temptation for fiction. b. That which, or something that, is imaginatively invented; feigned existence, event, or state of things; invention as opposed to fact. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > something invented fiction1495 fablea1593 commentation1652 myth1849 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) i. sig. Aij/2 Deuowte doctours of Theologye..wysely..vse natural philosophye & morall and poetes in ther ficcions & feyned Informacyons. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure Proem v Whose [i.e. Lydgate's] fatall fictions are yet permanent, Grounded on reason. 1586 W. Warner Æneidos in Albions Eng. sig. Oi The waues sollycited (a Poeticall fiction) by the wife of Iupiter. 1612 T. Wilson Christian Dict. 375 The popish Priest-hood is an immaginary and blasphemous fixion. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 126 If this were plaid vpon a stage now, I could condemne it as an improbable fiction . View more context for this quotation 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne 251 Fiction is always more feeble than truth. 1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 209 Few real men have left such distinct characters as these fictions. 1872 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. (ed. 2) II. viii. iii. 536 Until fact..has become clearly distinguished from fiction. 1876 W. E. Gladstone Homeric Synchronism 34 The fictions of the Virgilian age establish no presumption adverse to it. c. A statement or narrative proceeding from mere invention; such statements collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [noun] > an invention, fiction, story fablec1300 fantasy1362 feigning1388 invention?a1513 story?1531 finctionc1540 figment1577 fingure1593 fiction1599 knavigation1613 flam1632 gun1720 novel1764 fabrication1790 fudge1797 gag1805 myth1840 make-up1844 concoction1885 fictionalization1954 1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 32 Because yo^u shall not thinke this anye fixione of my owne. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 What a fiction or fable was deuised. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 221 Let us cast away all fiction. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 318 Though this was all a Fiction of his own, yet it had its desired Effect. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxxvi. 326 Such an anecdote may be rejected as an improbable fiction. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 581 The messengers..might..have related mere fictions without incurring the penalties of perjury. 1873 J. G. Holland Arthur Bonnicastle i. 17 He had been playing off a fiction upon me. 4. a. The species of literature which is concerned with the narration of imaginary events and the portraiture of imaginary characters; fictitious composition. Now usually, prose novels and stories collectively; the composition of works of this class. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] poetrya1387 fiction1599 prose fiction1808 science fiction1851 1599 R. Linche tr. V. Cartari (title) The fountaine of ancient fiction. a1780 J. Harris Philol. Inq. (1781) ii. vi. 142 Dramatic fiction copies real life. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux II. iv. vi. 226 Old people like history better than fiction. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 65 The Arabs..enjoy a remarkable advantage over us in the composition of works of fiction. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 10 The existing school of French fiction. b. A work of fiction; a novel or tale. Now chiefly in depreciatory use; cf. 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > a work of fiction fablea1340 fiction1875 fictionalization1954 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost ix. 258 They read nothing but fictions and levities. 1939 ‘G. Orwell’ Let. 9 Apr. (1968) I. 394 By contract he's supposed to publish my next three fictions. 5. A supposition known to be at variance with fact, but conventionally accepted for some reason of practical convenience, conformity with traditional usage, decorum, or the like. a. in Law. Chiefly applied to those feigned statements of fact which the practice of the courts authorized to be alleged by a plaintiff in order to bring his case within the scope of the law or the jurisdiction of the court, and which the defendant was not allowed to disprove. Fictions of this kind are now almost obsolete in England, the objects which they were designed to serve having been for the most part attained by the amendment of the law. ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > assumption feigned for argument fiction1590 legal fiction1861 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iv. f. 165 It were against all right..that he should be iudged the father of that childe, by fiction of lawe. 1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 223 That ancestor, from whom it..is supposed by fiction of law to have originally descended. 1775 Ld. Mansfield in Mostyn v. Fabrigas, Smith's Leading Cases (ed. 9) I. 652 It is a certain rule, that a fiction of law shall never be contradicted so as to defeat the end for which it was invented, but for every other purpose it may be contradicted. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 26 It became a fundamental maxim, or rather fiction of our law that all real property was originally granted by the king. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xl. 312 The gold leaf has its representative in ‘legal fiction’. 1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law ii. 26 I..employ the expression ‘Legal Fiction’ to signify any assumption which conceals, or affects to conceal, the fact that a rule of law has undergone alteration. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxii. 17 The same spirit of legal fiction..shows itself..in the way in which the facts of the great confiscation are dealt with. b. gen. (chiefly transferred). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] > false idolum1640 idolism1671 idol1678 fiction1828 pseudo-idea1863 pseudo-concept1866 1828 Ld. Grenville Sinking Fund 11 To reduce debt by borrowing..is a manifest fiction in finance. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vii. 116 By a like pleasant fiction his single chamber was always mentioned in the plural number. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism i. 2 The elements of algebra..are as full of fictions as English law. Compounds fiction-character n. ΚΠ 1909 Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 3/4 A second helping of a fiction character..cannot quite be like the first. 1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland ii. 28 The originals of the fiction-characters are generally well-known. fiction-mint n. ΚΠ 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing viii. 84 (note) Those fiction~mints. fiction-monger n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > [noun] > writer or creator of fiction fabular1565 story-dresser1592 fabler1614 figmentor1638 fiction-monger1835 fictioneer1923 fictioner1924 1835 J. P. Kennedy Horse-shoe Robinson I. ii. 31 If any one, hereafter, should tell your story, he will be accounted a fiction-monger. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. viii. 111 Trials have become lately quite hackneyed subjects, stock properties for the fiction-mongers. 1891 J. Winsor Columbus vi. 112 The credulous fiction-mongers who hang about the skirts of the historic field. 1891 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Oct. 3/1 He is no mere fiction-monger. fiction-writer n. ΚΠ 1859 Sat. Rev. 7 43/1 The rest are the regular property of the fiction-writer. fiction-writing n. ΚΠ 1856 ‘G. Eliot’ Jrnl. 20 July (1998) 62 I am anxious to begin my fiction writing. 1966 Times 28 Feb. (Canada Suppl.) p. ix/1 Painting, play and fiction-writing. Derivatives ˈfiction v. transitive and intransitive. To feign; to fictionize; to admit of being fictionized. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (intransitive)] feignc1384 fictionize1934 fiction1961 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > invent, concoct [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction to make upc1650 fictionize1831 fictionalize1925 fiction1961 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > tell or write fiction [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being fictionalized fiction1961 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > fiction > relate or represent in fiction [verb (transitive)] > turn into fiction fictionize1831 fictionalize1925 fiction1961 1961 Amer. Speech 36 138 You can see for your self it doesn't fiction. 1966 Punch 12 Jan. 64/2 Yes, yes, yes, but why fiction it? Particularly because the fiction is weak. ˈfictioned adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective] fainta1340 counterfeit1393 pretense1395 feinta1400 feigned1413 disguisyc1430 colourable1433 pretending1434 simulate1435 dissimuled1475 simulative1490 coloureda1500 dissimulate?a1500 simuled1526 colorate1528 dissembled1539 mock1548 devised1552 pretended?1553 artificial1564 supposed1566 counterfeited1569 supposing?1574 affecteda1586 pretensive1607 false1609 supposite1611 simulara1616 simulatory1618 simulated1622 put-ona1625 ironic1631 ironical1646 devisable1659 pretensional1659 pretenced1660 pretensory1663 vizarded1663 shammed?c1677 sham1681 faux1684 fictitious1739 ostensible1762 made-up1773 mala fide1808 assumed1813 semblative1814 fictioned1820 pretextual1837 pseudo1854 fictive1855 schlenter1881 faked1890 phoney1893 phantom1897 1820 W. M. Praed Surly Hall 238 His fictioned flame. 1849 A. R. Smith Pottleton Legacy xiii. 110 The mistress of the house was dimly fictioned as being the only person who had ever read them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483
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