Fictile meaning

fĭk'təl, -tīl'
Of or relating to earthenware or pottery.
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Capable of being molded; plastic.
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Formed of a moldable substance, such as clay or earth.
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That can be molded; plastic.
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Formed of molded clay, earth, etc.
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Of pottery or ceramics.
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Capable of being molded into the shape of an artifact or art work.
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(of an art work or artifact) Molded of clay or earth.
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(pottery) Of or relating to earthenware.
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(figuratively) Capable of being led or directed.
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Origin of fictile

Latin fictilis made of clay from fictus past participle of fingere to mold dheigh- in Indo-European roots

Sentence Examples

  • The exterior is richly and peculiarly ornamented, to show the progress of fictile art.

  • A graphic representation of the workshop of a Greek sculptor in bronze is given on a fictile vase in the Berlin Museum (see Gerhard's Trinkschalen, plates xii., xiii.).

  • I had read of the potter's clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood.

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