fictious

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɪkʃəs/

Adjective

fictious (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Fictitious.
   • 1688, Mat[thew] Prior, “On Exodus 3. 14. I Am that I Am. An Ode. […]”, in Poems on Several Occasions, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], published 1709, →OCLC, stanza VI, page 4:

     Man does vvith dangerous Curioſity / Theſe unfathom'd VVonders try: / VVith fancy'd Rules and Arbitrary Lavvs / Matter and Motion he reſtrains, / And ſtudy'd Lines and fictious Circles dravvs; […]

2. (obsolete) Addicted to or characterized by fiction.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “fictious”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.