commentitious

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin commentīcius.

Adjective

commentitious (comparative more commentitious, superlative most commentitious)

1. (rare) fictitious, imaginary.
   • 1845, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe (Section 22, The Pagan Oracles. Internet Archive):

     In philosophy no place should be given to commentitious fables.

References

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “commentitious”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Mrs. Byrne [Josefa Heifetz Byrne] (1979) “commentitious”, in Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, London: Granada Publishing, →ISBN.
• “commentitious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.