a. Obs. [as if ad. L. *fictiōsus, f. fictiōnem: see FICTION.]
1. = FICTITIOUS.
1644. Quarles, The Shepheards Oracles, i.
| It was my onely griefe, | |
| That my report (exceeding all beliefe) | |
| Was counted fictious. |
1688. Prior, Exod. iii. 14. vi. And study’d Lines and fictious Circles draws.
1710. Brit. Apollo, III. 3/2. Thy Fictious Performance would ne’re be so dull.
1770. Gentl. Mag., XL. 315. His R—— H—— had assumed the fictious name of Morgan.
1804. J. Lackington, Confessions, Pref., 7. I have called my old acquaintances by fictious names.
1813. T. Busby, Lucretius, I. 121.
| But thou, o’er whom religious fear prevails, | |
| Who tremblest at the poet’s fictious tales, | |
| Dar’st thou from priestly manacles be free? | |
| Dar’st thou, my Memmius, wisdom learn from me? | |
| Ibid., II. 361. | |
| So when a mighty army fills the plain | |
| With fictious war, and wild commotions reign, | |
| Swift wheel the horse, amid the battle bound, | |
| And beat with thundering hoofs the trembling ground. |
2. Addicted to or characterized by fiction.
1641. T. Hayne, Luther, 113.
| Go, fictious Greece, go tell Alcides, then, | |
| His club is nothing to great Luthers pen. |
1660. trans. Paracelsus’ Archidoxis, II. 26. As long as thy Fancy and Opinion adhers to thy Fictious Books, thou are not fit, or predestinated to any of these things.
1813. G. Colman, Br. Grins, Vagaries Vind., xxxiv.
| From fictious verse could stubborn facts ensue | |
| You should be affluent—and Poets, too! |
