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Found 1 definition: fictile.

Pos: Adjective

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Adjective fictile has 3 senses

1. fictile(a = adj.pert) Array - of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware"

2. fictile(s = adj.all) pliable - susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda"

3. fictile(s = adj.all) moldable, plastic - capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay"

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

fictile, a. [L. fictilis. See Fiction.].

Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. [1913 Webster]
"Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth." [1913 Webster]
"The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art." [1913 Webster]

Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

fictile, adj.
1 made of earth or clay by a potter.
2 of pottery.

Etymology:
L fictilis f. fingere fict- fashion

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Form

N form, figure, shape, conformation, configuration, make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib, stamp, type, cast, mold, fashion, contour, structure, plasmature, feature, lineament, turn, phase, posture, attitude, pose, morphism, isomorphism, forming, formation, figuration, efformation, sculpture, plasmation, formed, plastic, fictile, formative, fluid, plasmic, isomorphous, pleomorphic, protean, changeable.