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Definition of fictile in English: fictileadjective ˈfɪktʌɪlˈfɪktɪl technical 1Made of earth or clay by a potter. Example sentencesExamples - In the annexed woodcut, the female figure in the middle is copied from a fictile vase.
- A labourer at Ateste, near Padua, in Italy, found a sepulchre, in which was a fictile urn, and within it there stood another urn, and in this smaller one.
Synonyms pliable, pliant, flexible, supple, plastic, tensile, tractile - 1.1 Relating to pottery or its manufacture.
Example sentencesExamples - Fragments of rude pottery, composed of a mixture of clay and gravel, and imperfectly burnt, are indications that in fictile work the primitive dwellers on the shores of Lake Deschênes had mastered the initial stages in the manufacture of domestic utensils.
- Apart, therefore, from the exquisite beauty of many remains of fictile art, which confers on them a high intrinsic value, the works of the potter have been minutely studied by the archaeologist.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin fictilis, from fict- 'formed, contrived', from the verb fingere. Definition of fictile in US English: fictileadjective technical 1Made of earth or clay by a potter. Example sentencesExamples - In the annexed woodcut, the female figure in the middle is copied from a fictile vase.
- A labourer at Ateste, near Padua, in Italy, found a sepulchre, in which was a fictile urn, and within it there stood another urn, and in this smaller one.
Synonyms pliable, pliant, flexible, supple, plastic, tensile, tractile - 1.1 Relating to pottery or its manufacture.
Example sentencesExamples - Apart, therefore, from the exquisite beauty of many remains of fictile art, which confers on them a high intrinsic value, the works of the potter have been minutely studied by the archaeologist.
- Fragments of rude pottery, composed of a mixture of clay and gravel, and imperfectly burnt, are indications that in fictile work the primitive dwellers on the shores of Lake Deschênes had mastered the initial stages in the manufacture of domestic utensils.
- 1.2 Capable of being molded; plastic.
Example sentencesExamples - Porcelain is a fictile material intermediate between glass and pottery.
- Beads of artificial substances were produced from a very fine textured fictile clay and consolidated by a firing process.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin fictilis, from fict- ‘formed, contrived’, from the verb fingere. |