adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a fictitious, imaginary, pretended or counterfeit manner; falsely; by way of pretence or sham.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. xx. 263. These pieces fictitiously set downe, and having no copy in Nature.
1769. Blackstone, Comm., IV. 185. The law requires that the person who kills another in his own defence should have retreated as far as he conveniently or safely can, to avoid the violence of the assault, before he turns upon his assailant; and that not fictitiously, or in order to watch his oopportunity, but from a real tenderness of shedding his brother’s blood.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 58/1. If the ceiling is flat all ornament placed upon it must not only be flat also, but must not fictitiously represent relief, for no shaded ornament can be pleasant when placed as the decoration of an architectural surface.
